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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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" 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. "

Steven Soderbergh

Change

Die

Great

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Steven Soderbergh

Kinds

Make

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I love caper films. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I watch a lot of true crime on TV. "

Steven Soderbergh

Crime

Watch

" 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

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

" 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

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

Steven Soderbergh

Fun

Traffic

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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