Steven Soderbergh Quotes on Movies (13 Quotes)

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

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

I just wanted to make a movie about love and jealousy, ... but in an environment that you don't often get to see in movies. The whole appeal was the simplicity of it. The idea was just to not tart it up. These cameras make it easy to go in without any lights, on all real locations.

I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.

This is my response to certain trends in the entertainment industry, ... are gone. I wish it weren't so. Everything changes and evolves and we've got to get with it, embrace it and find a way to make it work. The movies are not the way they used to be when I grew up. It's 30 years later

The biggest thing is people having access to the movie who might not have access to it for a while. They might have read about it and they're interested but they don't live near an art cinema, or they don't have a video store that carries this kind of stuff, and this way they can get it and get a hold of it as soon as they've heard about it.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The movie business is out of whack, ... The studio model has to be rethought.

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'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

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.

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

I want them to sell 'Bubble' DVDs in the theater lobby,

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