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“Logan Lucky,” which opens Aug. 18, puts a down-home spin on the elaborate capers in Mr. Soderbergh’s glitzier “Ocean’s Eleven” series. It is also the first theatrical release he has directed in four years, following what appeared to be several very unambiguous pronouncements that he was giving up filmmaking altogether.

Now that he seems to be going back on his word, Mr. Soderbergh is as gleeful as he is humbled. At various times in his career, he’s been an art house auteur, a must-have director of the moment, a renegade and a recluse. But he’s found what he wants to do is make movies that, whatever genre they fall into, can be seen by as many people as possible.

“I’ve been shooting my mouth off for a long time about aspects of the movie business I’m frustrated with,” he said recently. “I make declarative statements a lot that I then have to walk back. But I think the country’s used to that.”