Steven Soderbergh

It would be nice if all people who saw movies had some sort of basic understanding of what they're looking at, but I don't think you can assume that.

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

Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I've seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I've seen Oscar-winning movies that don't. I'm fine with this.

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, and that's the most fun.

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

I'm a big believer in volume. If I made three times as many movies as Stanley Kubrick, that must mean I'm three times as good.

I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker.

I'm trying to develop an approach to putting out a movie in wide release that makes some kind of economic sense for the filmmakers and the people that have a participation in the movie.

The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed.

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

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

I love caper films.