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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Steven Soderbergh

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" 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. "

" To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally. "

" 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. "

" 'Logan Lucky' is an experiment. The problem that I think needs to be addressed is, what has happened to movies for grown-ups made by people who are still interested in the idea of cinema? "

" Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street. "

" I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted. "

" You don't go make 'Schizopolis' if you're trying to protect some idea of yourself as a filmmaker. "

" When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy. "

" 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. "

" The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do. "

" 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. "

" Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will. "

" 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. "

" Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it. "

" There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't. "

" I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script. "

Steven Soderbergh

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" I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker. "

" When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't. "

" 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. "

" The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie. "

" 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. "

" I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses. "

" Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that. "

" 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. "

Steven Soderbergh

Thought

Not Knowing

" When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead. "

Steven Soderbergh

Dead

Over

" One of the reasons why I think virtual reality, as a narrative format, is never going to go beyond the short-form immersion space is because the bedrock of visual storytelling is the reverse angle. If you can't look into the eyes of the protagonist, you cannot hold people's attention for more than 15 minutes. "

" I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films. "

Steven Soderbergh

Fun

Traffic

" I try to focus on the stuff that I can control and let go of the other stuff. "

" Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film. "

Steven Soderbergh

Film