Four decades in, Steven Soderbergh is still figuring it out — no, really.

“Every movie is a moon shot,” he insists. “In that regard, if you’re trying to land a rocket on the moon, and you’re off by 1 degree, you miss the moon by a wide margin.”

Across his prolific career in independent filmmaking, the director of the Ocean’s trilogy, Contagion, Magic Mike, and dozens more has broken so many molds that he’s emerged as an almost defiantly dynamic filmmaker, bringing his signature idiosyncrasies as a director, editor, and cinematographer to bear on one genre after another.

This year alone, his unsettling Presence tells a ghost story from the specter’s perspective, and his espionage thriller Black Bag (now in theaters) grounds a globetrotting tale of personal and professional deceptions within a married couple’s precisely calibrated work-life balance. These latest films, both collaborations with the screenwriter David Koepp, bear Soderbergh’s signature in their restless formal experimentation: the former in how his camera — with its long and roving takes — conveyed the titular entity’s emotional investment in a family’s domestic drama, and the latter in how his clockwork pacing, staging, and editing rhythms reflect a level of control rivaling only that which his covert characters exert over their own lives.

But, as Soderbergh sees it, all he’s doing is learning a little more each time he’s behind the lens. “It’s why this is the best job in the world,” he tells Inverse. “You never know enough; every movie is different, every day is different, and you’re humbled by the mistakes that you make that are inevitable when you’re trying to work something out.”

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