Steven Soderbergh’s Completely Useless Wrap Statistics For ‘The Knick’ Season 2

2023-01-18T01:30:17+00:00January 4th, 2016|Tags: , , , |

The tales of Steven Soderbergh‘s efficiency are legion, but you might make the mistake in thinking he takes an industrial view of filmmaking. Instead, his approach is a product of his years in the game, a process to get the best results without any wasted time or resources, and a method that keeps things interesting for the ensemble of actors he works. But never has this been as pronounced as in the making of “The Knick,” Soderbergh’s superb Cinemax series, which has seen him direct, edit, produce, and act as his own cinematographer across two full seasons.

Story Credit: IndieWire Exclusive: Steven Soderbergh’s Completely Useless Wrap Statistics For ‘The Knick’ Season 2
Photo Credit: Mary Cybulski

“Actors love working with this guy, because they’re not sitting around all day waiting for the set to be lit,”

Clive Owen on The Knick Finale, Cocaine, and the Plan for Season 2

2015-04-02T22:35:04+00:00April 2nd, 2015|Tags: , , , , |

…we shot the thing in 73 days. It was like the length of a really big movie. Apart from the amount we were getting through each day, which was an awful lot. We moved so quickly. I think our record was 13 pages of dialogue in one day.

A record of thirteen pages in a day is amazing in its own right, but a marathon of 73 days resulting in ~600 minutes of screen time is bonkers. To put it in perspective, the extended edition of the lord of the rings is about 650 minutes.

2014-07-10T17:36:08+00:00July 10th, 2014|Tags: , , |

All art to me is about problem solving. So I’m obsessed with problem solving. Somewhere someone discovered something or somebody was tasked to figure something out and they did. What did they figure out and how? One of the things that I believe is true is the art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there. There’s only the thing and what the thing needs to be. When I look around the world and think why is everything working or not working, it’s because it’s entrenched ideology. You can’t solve a problem if you’re sitting down with people who say, “All these ideas are off the table because of what I believe.”

Steven Soderbergh

2014-07-10T17:23:00+00:00July 10th, 2014|Tags: , , |

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative. That we’re a species that’s wired to tell stories. We need stories. It’s how we make sense of things. It’s how we learn. When we look at what’s going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening — you can always trace it back to competing narratives. What’s going on in Ukraine right now is that Vladimir Putin has a narrative of himself and his country that he’s so passionate about that he’s willing to make a move like that. This is about a story. His story of himself and him trying to restore his country to the glory he thinks it should have. It’s that elemental.

Steven Soderbergh
Go to Top