Steven Soderbergh Quotes

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 The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

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

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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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• When things go right it’s hard to figure out why, ccc 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

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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.

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

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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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• Maybe I’ll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

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• Making a film that’s supposed to be fun to watch is really hard – that’s the weird irony of it.

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• It’s pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn’t.

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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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• I’m very comfortable with failure. I’m very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

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• 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.

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• I think I’m good at amplifying an actor’s strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

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Steven Soderbergh (33)

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

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