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" It's really easy to make a movie that five people understand. It's really hard to make something that a lot of people understand and yet is not obvious, still has subtlety and ambiguity, and leaves you with something to do as a viewer. "

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

" I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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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Thought

Not Knowing

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" All I care about is the story and telling the story. I don't care how people ingest it. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I love caper films. "

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

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Kinds

Make

" 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. "