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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

I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about. — Steven Soderbergh

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides. — Steven Soderbergh

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer. — Steven Soderbergh

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed. — Steven Soderbergh

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that's made. — Steven Soderbergh

Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit. — Cate Blanchett

I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary. — Steven Soderbergh

In the land of ideas, you are always renting. — Steven Soderbergh

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. — Steven Soderbergh

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. — Steven Soderbergh

Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something. — 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 long-term value. — 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

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

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

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn. — Steven Soderbergh

Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows. — Steven Soderbergh

You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed. — Steven Soderbergh

Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement. — 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

My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now. — Steven Soderbergh

I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace. — Steven Soderbergh

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

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit. — Steven Soderbergh

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

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be. — Steven Soderbergh

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy. — Steven Soderbergh

People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response. — Steven Soderbergh

I love caper films. — Steven Soderbergh

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

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

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it. — Steven Soderbergh

We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it. — Steven Soderbergh

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it. — Steven Soderbergh

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

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

I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get. — Steven Soderbergh

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives. — 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

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

Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no. — Steven Soderbergh

A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene. — Steven Soderbergh

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

You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over. — Steven Soderbergh

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. — Steven Soderbergh

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings. — Steven Soderbergh

My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age. — Steven Soderbergh

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed. — Ava DuVernay

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies. — Steven Soderbergh

My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh. — Rainey Qualley

In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not. — Steven Soderbergh

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

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much. — Steven Soderbergh

People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen. — Steven Soderbergh

The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes. — 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

What are the stories you want people to tell about you? — Steven Soderbergh

It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen. — 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 everybody. — Steven Soderbergh

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is. — Steven Soderbergh

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses. — 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

Never had a cup of coffee in my life. Dr Pepper is my caffeine delivery system of choice. — 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 see. — Steven Soderbergh

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction. — Steven Soderbergh

The traditional models for success are just also disappearing. — Steven Soderbergh

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story. — Steven Soderbergh

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

Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot. — Steven Soderbergh

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it. — Steven Soderbergh

I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that. — Steven Soderbergh

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

He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere. — Terence Stamp

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then. — Steven Soderbergh

To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally. — Steven Soderbergh

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people. — Steven Soderbergh

I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions. — Steven Soderbergh