Steven Soderbergh Quotes

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• But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
• I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this…
• Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
• You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.
• Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.
• 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…
• The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
• American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or…
• In the land of ideas, you are always renting.
• What are the stories you want people to tell about you?
• A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.
• 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…
• We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This…
• To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.
• The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic. It's the only place in the movie you will see red, yellow, orange, or any vibrant colors.
• Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.
• When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.
• Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
• A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.
• If you’re sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you’ll just become paralysed.

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