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"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"

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Soderbergh’s line has the weary snap of someone who’s watched the film world reinvent its anxieties on a loop. “Sex, Lies and Videotape” wasn’t just a breakout; it was a marker for a particular argument about “indie” credibility, commercial compromise, and what counts as seriousness. Fifteen years on, he’s pointing out the obvious in a way that stings: the culture industry has an amazingly short memory, and its debates are less progress than seasonal programming.

The key move is the phrasing “hang around long enough.” It’s not a humblebrag; it’s a diagnosis of institutional amnesia. New gatekeepers arrive, old gatekeepers cycle out, and the same moral panics and aesthetic turf wars reappear with fresh vocabulary: film vs. content, art vs. product, purity vs. popularity. Soderbergh isn’t claiming the arguments are trivial. He’s saying the performance of arguing becomes its own tradition, a ritual that flatters each generation into thinking it’s the first to discover the problem.

The punchline is “it gets boring,” which sounds casual but lands like a critique. Boredom here is a creative verdict: if the conversation never evolves, the work risks stagnating too. Coming from a director known for restless experimentation and format-hopping, it reads as an artistic manifesto disguised as a sigh. Don’t confuse churn for change; if you want novelty, stop auditioning the same debate with newer faces.

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Soderbergh, Steven. (2026, January 15). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-its-15-years-since-sex-lies-and-videotape-82190/

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Soderbergh, Steven. "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." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-its-15-years-since-sex-lies-and-videotape-82190/.

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"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." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-its-15-years-since-sex-lies-and-videotape-82190/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.

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Steven Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is a Director from USA.

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