Steven Soderbergh Quotes

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

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• I love caper films.

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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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• When things go right it’s hard to figure out why, ccc it’s really easy.

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

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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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• I like to make all kinds of movies. I’d do ‘Ocean’s Thirteen’ with the right script.

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  Topics in Movies

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 The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

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Steven Soderbergh (33)

Birth:	14th January, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cinematographer, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

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