Does Anyone Direct More Movies Than Steven Soderbergh?
Everyone's buzzing about an interview Steven Soderbergh gave to the Guardian where he says that the Che shoot was so arduous that he wishes he hadn't done it (!) and predicts that he's only got a few more films left in him. Strangely enough, I can't say I'm all that surprised -- the man works himself to the bone. Over the past ten years, Soderbergh has directed fourteen films (many of which he shot himself) and a television series (K Street), not to mention a slew of movies he simply produced. How does that record compare to some of today's other prolific filmmakers? Let's look:
The famously busy Woody Allen, who almost always stacks projects one after the other, has directed eleven films in the same timespan.
Scorsese and Spielberg? Seven each.
How about the other directors Soderbergh beat when he won his Oscar? Ridley Scott tops the pack at eight films over the last decade, while Ang Lee has made six and Stephen Daldry, three.
If there's a busier mainstream filmmaker, he's not coming to mind. Let yourself take a vacation, Steve! You've earned it, buddy.
· Steven Soderbergh: 'I can see the end of my career' [Guardian]
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Quentin Tarantino did "Jackie Brown" in December 1997, and then didn't release another film until "Kill Bill Volume I" in October 2003.
In that time, Soderbergh released "Out of Sight," "The Limey," "Erin Brockovich," "Traffic," "Ocean's 11," "Full Frontal", "Solaris," and half the run of "K Street."
He had an entire career in one of QT's sabbaticals.
they've already retracted this story..it's a vague comment he made at a press conference 6 months ago about 'one day seeing himself stopping'
I wish Whit Stillman would hang out with ole Steve and maybe take some notes on that industriousness.
Well, not to be a Payne in the Drag Queen's Ass, but Tyler Perry has directed 9 features (including the film he's releasing this year), and he only started in 2006. That's just films where he's been behind the director's chair. If we include the film he's filming now, which will be released in 2010, then he'll have 10 films to his name for the decade, not to mention all of the episodes of his sit-coms that he's directed.
And an excellent one at that. Plus, if you throw in his producing and his camera work, then he had three whole careers.
I begin to suspect he's a robot. One of the few Michael Bay hasn't blown up... OMG, maybe that's why Bay wants to blow up robots so much! He's trying to kill Soderbergh.