Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch, Hayao Miyazaki - Why Are All These Retired Directors Unretiring?

"Miyazaki has nothing left to prove. But for the other directors it's hard not to suspect that the old retirement hokey-cokey - in, out, in, out - is at least partly driven by PR reasoning. ... If that's what's going on, then these vacillating retirees have been forced into it by the tumultuous state of cinema. They're taking action on a commonly voiced complaint: that the studios' franchise addiction has sucked financing out of mid-range-budget films."