Soderbergh, who is invariably described by people who’ve worked with him as chronically curious, said he’s obsessed with how “new knowledge is created.” There may be no better lens for exploring that motif than medicine, he said, “because of its proximity to our mortality.”
“Your imminent annihilation is not an abstract idea,” said Soderbergh, 53. “When somebody close to you is sick, that’s not an abstract idea. I think it’s a very primal subject. As a result, people are very engaged by it. We would all like more time, and we would all like the people close to us to have more time.”
But the rationality that drives good science is inseparable, in his view, from the irrationality that leads somebody to buy unproven brain supplements.
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