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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.
Steven Soderbergh

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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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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.
Steven Soderbergh

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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.
Steven Soderbergh

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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 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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Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
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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.
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I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.
Steven Soderbergh

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I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.
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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
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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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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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