Steven Soderbe
rgh has directed 26 films since his 1989 debut, sex, lies, and videotape, released when he was only 26. In the 24 years since, he’s been a remarkably prolific chameleon, managing arguably more than any other director of his generation to successfully bounce between the low- and high-budget, not only directing but often editing and shooting his own films, each, in its way, an audacious experiment. Then in 2011, the seemingly abrupt announcement: He wanted to be done making movies by the time he was 50, to focus on painting, among many other things.
http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/steven-soderbergh-in-conversation.html