American - Director | January 14, 1963 -
It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't.
Steven Soderbergh
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Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
PhotographyI CanSeePaintJust
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.
ChangeBusinessGreatTimeDieYou
The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
KeyYouEverythingPrettyWellGoes
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.
CarRedIdeasDesertYouJust
To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.
JobMeBetterYouDirectorLeave
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.
WorldPortraitI CanMove OnStreet
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.
GoMoviesWillEverythingOutChina
Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.
PeopleEnoughLongYouSexNew
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
MeIndependentDeadOverUpFilm
When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.
EasyWrongGoWhyHardRight
When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.
YouSeeSomethingReadEitherWhile
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