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" 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. "

Steven Soderbergh

Rest

I Can

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction. "

" It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't. "

Steven Soderbergh

Working

Pretty

" There's something really fun about watching people really good at something. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When people say that moviegoing is dead, I go, 'OK, so the makers of 'Get Out' should've sold that movie to a platform? Then they don't have this insane, crazy success theatrically all over the world.' "

" 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. "

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

Steven Soderbergh

Fun

Traffic

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Steven Soderbergh

Film

" The key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes. "

" The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well. "

" 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. "

Steven Soderbergh

Love

People

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. "

Steven Soderbergh

Lying

Always

" It would be nice if all people who saw movies had some sort of basic understanding of what they're looking at, but I don't think you can assume that. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Steven Soderbergh

Kinds

Make