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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. "
Steven Soderbergh
Three
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Big
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" Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it. "
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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 of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time. "
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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. "
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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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" The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed. "
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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 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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" I watch a lot of true crime on TV. "
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" I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker. "
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" '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? "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction. "
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" Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that. "
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" The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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