Steven Soderbergh Quotes

We're in the entertainment business.

It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.

There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda.

Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.

The entertainment industry is so vast; that's why I got into it the first place.

I joined Red Chillies entertainment right after I returned from the London School of Economics in 2007.

It's not so important to me where I work. A lot of good writers and directors and actors come out of Hollywood, so obviously it would be great to work there, but there's some great stuff coming out of Britain, so I'm going to see what comes from all angles.

I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I'm disappointed that indie film is as hard as it is to work in now. It's hard to get things done, but that sort of work is being done on TV. That's what I do; that's what I write. It's what I love, and hopefully, that's what my future's going to be.

These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.

The directors you want to work with are in the television world.

There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.

I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.

Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.

When I started in the business, you did television, and then when you got lucky, you got a prestige project of a film.

My grandfather used to own a production company called Everlasting Pictures. I grew up with a lot of artistas and reporters and I'd always be starstruck.

My parents are in the business - they're actors - so I kind of grew up on a film set, which was a funny place to grow up.

In the entertainment industry, especially, is a total different environment then working in a corporate setting.

I've always known that I wanted to do something in entertainment and fashion.

Films are a business. They take who's working.