Steven Soderbergh

I love caper films.

— Steven Soderbergh

I watch a lot of true crime on TV.

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

I recently decided that I'm not an originator. I'm a synthesist.

— Steven Soderbergh

I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker.

— Steven Soderbergh

If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something.

— Steven Soderbergh

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.

— Steven Soderbergh

It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.

— Steven Soderbergh

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm a big believer in volume. If I made three times as many movies as Stanley Kubrick, that must mean I'm three…

— Steven Soderbergh

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some…

— Steven Soderbergh

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to…

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all…

— Steven Soderbergh

Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to…

— Steven Soderbergh

Men tend to define themselves by what they do, and so if you're dealing with a character who's trying to figure that…

— Steven Soderbergh

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist. If you're wandering…

— Steven Soderbergh

If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make…

— Steven Soderbergh

Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the…

— Steven Soderbergh

I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better…

— Steven Soderbergh

I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to…

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you…

— Steven Soderbergh

The best set was probably 'Bloody Sunday.' We had no money for extras and gambled on months of outreach to persuade the…

— Steven Soderbergh

If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never…

— Steven Soderbergh

American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity…

— Steven Soderbergh

One of the reasons why I think virtual reality, as a narrative format, is never going to go beyond the short-form immersion…

— Steven Soderbergh

My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to…

— Steven Soderbergh

“Dr. Jeffrey Korchak: [reading aloud] Dear attractive woman number 2, only once in my life have I responded to a person the…

— Steven Soderbergh

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff…

— Steven Soderbergh

I think often people fall into the breadth trap of wanting to do too long a period of time, and obviously there's…

— Steven Soderbergh

There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.

— Steven Soderbergh

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

— Steven Soderbergh

I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

— Steven Soderbergh

The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.

— Steven Soderbergh