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" 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. "

Steven Soderbergh

Trying

Kind

Out

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Steven Soderbergh

Kinds

Make

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

" 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

Fun

Just

" In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed. "

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

Steven Soderbergh

Fun

Traffic

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit. "

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

Steven Soderbergh

Lying

Always

" 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

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

Steven Soderbergh

Film

" 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'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. "

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

" 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