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All Quotes by author - Steven Soderbergh
" After making a lot more films, I realized that the movie and TV business is, for all its inefficiencies, one of the best-run big businesses we have. "
Making
Business
Big
" All I care about is the story and telling the story. I don't care how people ingest it. "
Care
Telling
About
" A lot of people get very misty-eyed about celluloid. When I think of the time that's wasted in sending it back to the lab and having it developed and brought back, it would make me insane. I love getting my hands on the stuff immediately. That doesn't work for everybody. It just works for me. "
Me
Love
People
" A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit. "
Costs
Event
Only
" Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film. "
Film
Me
Like
" A success, to me, is the ability to keep working. That's success. It has nothing to do with money; it's the ability to keep getting things made, period. "
Nothing
Working
Money
" As vocal as some people have been about how emotionally attached they've been to celluloid, I've been equally emotional in my stance that nothing is more valuable than this. Than being able to see the result of your work quickly. "
Some People
Work
People
" But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses. "
Talking
Travel
Business
" Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I've seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I've seen Oscar-winning movies that don't. I'm fine with this. "
Fine
Venue
Seen
" Getting upset about Netflix, to me, is like getting upset about the weather. It's just something that's happening, and we have to decide what we feel about it. "
Weather
Feel
Netflix
" I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker. "
Filmmaker
I Came
Out
" I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted. "
Other
Way
Myself
" If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something. "
Something
You
Interesting
" If you talk to any filmmaker, and if you said to them, 'I guarantee you x amount of money per month for the rest of your life, and it's not a big amount of money, but I can also guarantee that you will work continually, you will get to make what you want to make,' any filmmaker on the planet will make that kind of deal. I would have made it. "
Rest
I Can
You
" I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be. "
Thought
Not Knowing
Me
" I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out. "
Why
Ocean
Mind
" I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films. "
More
Fun
Traffic
" I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun. "
Fun
Just
Me
" I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong. "
Know
Law
Wrong
" I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script. "
Kinds
Like
Make
" I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable. "
Look
Doing
Work
" I love caper films. "
Films
I Love
Love
" I'm a big believer in volume. If I made three times as many movies as Stanley Kubrick, that must mean I'm three times as good. "
Three
Good
Big
" I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it. "
Process
Help
You
" I'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time. "
Opinion
Power
Minority
" I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient. "
Some People
Business
People
" I'm trying to develop an approach to putting out a movie in wide release that makes some kind of economic sense for the filmmakers and the people that have a participation in the movie. "
Trying
Kind
Out
" I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people. "
Who
People
Guy
" In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides. "
Take
Street
Digital
" I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses. "
Actor
Good
I Think
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