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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? "

Steven Soderbergh

Problem

Cinema

Think

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Lying

Always

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker. "

" 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. "

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

Steven Soderbergh

Film

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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