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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. "

Steven Soderbergh

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

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" 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 The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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

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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 came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker. "

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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. "

Steven Soderbergh

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

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

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" When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead. "

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

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

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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. "

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" I'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time. "

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" 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. "

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