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 we don't.
From Steven Soderbergh
Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.
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 that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.
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 The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.
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 in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it.
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