Steven Soderbergh

I watch a lot of true crime on TV.

— Steven Soderbergh

I love caper films.

— Steven Soderbergh

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker.

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm a big believer that if there's something you really want to do, don't walk away because of the deal.

— 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

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

— Steven Soderbergh

You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with…

— Steven Soderbergh

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the…

— Steven Soderbergh

You can't change who you are, so I think that the only thing you can do is just never talk to people…

— Steven Soderbergh

A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I…

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post.And it means nothing to…

— Steven Soderbergh

Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with…

— Steven Soderbergh

I think the feeling that we're going to work together again usually starts to come up before the first project's even done.…

— Steven Soderbergh

Whenever you experiment with something, it's very easy to take the emotion out of it. And going back and forth between wanting…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.

— Steven Soderbergh

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— 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