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33 quotes by Steven Soderbergh

Steven Andrew Soderbergh (/ˈsoʊdərbɜrɡ/; born January 14, 1963) is an American film producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. His indie drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and became a worldwide commercial success, making the then-26-year-old Soderbergh the youngest director to win the festival's top award. Movie critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the "poster boy of the...
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There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them... →

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

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

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I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece... →

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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge... →

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