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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

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" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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Fun

Traffic

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of 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 like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script. "

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Kinds

Make

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