Taken from the November 2009 issue of Empire:

“Empire: There was a piece in The Guardian recently, around the DVD release of Che, where it sounded like you wanted to give up. But you don’t sound defeated…

Soderbergh: Okay…What that guy did was not cool. I was not depressed, I was not defeated, I was not resigned. In fact, I was very much the way I am right now.  I was speaking in sort of philosophical terms about the business, about that film, and it was spun and put out in the aftermath of the Moneyball situation to look as though it was a reaction to that. That was not cool, the way I was characterised in that piece.”

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