Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
From Steven Soderbergh
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 great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
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.
A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.
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 me certain things - not knowing what that would be.
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.
I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.
I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.
In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.
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