sandbox

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Throughout his career, Soderbergh has sought out new technology and filmmaking techniques to play around with, lending his work an exciting sandbox quality where anything goes.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026

You have to provide them with a sandbox to play with it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

It’s fun to just play around in the sandbox and experiment and stumble upon something.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

He's previously described the fatigue of managing vast open-world sandbox games like Red Dead Redemption and GTA as playing a role in his departure.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2025

When Peaches was young he used to take her to the park and he would get right down in the sandbox and make castles and stuff with her.

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers