Film Quotes by Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

The key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes.

— Steven Soderbergh

A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— 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

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

— Steven Soderbergh

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

— Steven Soderbergh

As vocal as some people have been about how emotionally attached they've been to celluloid, I've been equally emotional in my stance…

— Steven Soderbergh

That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for…

— Steven Soderbergh

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I…

— Steven Soderbergh

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot…

— Steven Soderbergh

After making a lot more films, I realized that the movie and TV business is, for all its inefficiencies, one of the…

— Steven Soderbergh

When people say that moviegoing is dead, I go, 'OK, so the makers of 'Get Out' should've sold that movie to a…

— 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

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

— Steven Soderbergh

Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync…

— Steven Soderbergh

I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all.…

— Steven Soderbergh

I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the…

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too. Stuff I like…

— Steven Soderbergh

I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions, that the key to making good movies is to…

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

— Steven Soderbergh

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

— Steven Soderbergh

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

— 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

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

I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and…

— Steven Soderbergh

It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have…

— Steven Soderbergh

The muscle memory of filtering away all the wrong versions of what you're doing improves the more time you're on a film…

— Steven Soderbergh

Everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the…

— Steven Soderbergh

Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be…

— Steven Soderbergh

It's really easy to make a movie that five people understand. It's really hard to make something that a lot of people…

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is…

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm trying to develop an approach to putting out a movie in wide release that makes some kind of economic sense for…

— Steven Soderbergh

A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or…

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all…

— Steven Soderbergh

Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I…

— Steven Soderbergh