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Steven Soderbergh decided to make a ghost story. He also wanted to play the ghost

A few years ago, there was a ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s Los Angeles home. The scenes play out like vignettes, with cuts to black in between each one — “like mini plays,” Soderbergh says, each revealing more about the family’s emotional turmoil and the ghost itself. The process required few actual takes since “once you had it, you had it.” “The only concern as a director was: If this doesn’t work, there’s no plan B,” Soderbergh admits. It felt very much like a movie my mom would make and I’m sorry she isn’t here to see it.” Movies You have to read Steven Soderbergh’s advice to emerging director Andrew Patterson Steven Soderbergh reached out to filmmaker Andrew Patterson after seeing the younger filmmaker’s debut, “The Vast of Night.” The two of them talk about influences and moving forward. Since his Cannes-winning 1989 breakthrough “Sex, Lies, and Videotape,” Soderbergh’s career has veered in numerous directions, from capers like “Ocean’s Eleven” and its sequels to sports dramas, thrillers and somber sci-fi.

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