Quotes from Steven Soderbergh

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

Never had a cup of coffee in my life. Dr Pepper is my caffeine delivery system of choice.

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

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker.

You don't go make 'Schizopolis' if you're trying to protect some idea of yourself as a 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.

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

I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

'Logan Lucky' is an experiment. The problem that I think needs to be addressed is, what has happened to movies for grown-ups made by people who are still interested in the idea of cinema?

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.

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.

The muscle memory of filtering away all the wrong versions of what you're doing improves the more time you're on a film set. I feel like my problem-solving algorithm got kicked up a notch.

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 The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

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.

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

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

The key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes.

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.

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.

The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose.