Comentarios del director sobre la fotografía:
Soderbergh literally had his hands in several aspects of the filmmaking. He opted to shoot much of the film on his own with a hand-held camera strapped over his shoulder.
"It came from a desire to film as quickly as possible, and the hand-held was an extension of that. I wanted to give the impression that we were chasing the story, and that we were capturing instead of staging something," says Soderbergh.
To enhance the distinctions, Soderbergh used different shades of color filtered over each of the three stories told in Traffic. He realized it was also easier to film himself than to explain his vision to a cinematographer, who would likely object to his extreme lighting choices.
"There's a lot of stuff in the movie that's just wrong. There are mistakes," Soderbergh says.
And he will gladly make such "mistakes" again.
"I'm doing it again, think it would be very hard to go back [to working with another cameraman]. I just found that whole process very organic. I had shot all my short films, and was trained as a still photographer in high school," says Soderbergh. "If anything, I was frustrated by having that extra layer [a cinematographer] between myself and the film."