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" 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. "
Steven Soderbergh
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" In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy. "
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" If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted. "
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" 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. "
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" I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films. "
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" I'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time. "
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" 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. "
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" When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't. "
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" Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses. "
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" Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. "
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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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