Steven soderbergh

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

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

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

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach...

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

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

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

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

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