Editing Out of Sight (section)

===Casting===
[[Sandra Bullock]] was originally considered to play Karen Sisco opposite Clooney. According to Soderbergh, "What happened was I spent some time with [Clooney and Bullock] and they actually did have a great chemistry. But it was for the wrong movie. They really should do a movie together, but it was not Elmore Leonard energy."<ref name= "Showbiz">{{cite news | title = Steven Soderbergh Interview | work =  Mr. Showbiz | year = 1998 }}</ref>

The character of Foley appealed to Clooney, who as a boy had considered as heroes the bank robbers in movies, citing "the [[James Cagney|Cagneys]] and the [[Humphrey Bogart|Bogarts]], [[Steve McQueen (actor)|Steve McQueen]] and all those guys, the guys who were kind of bad and you still rooted for them. And when I read this, I thought, 'This guy is robbing a bank but you really want him to get away with it.'"<ref name= "Decha, Max">{{cite news | last = Decha | first = Max | title = America's Most Wanted | work = [[Neon (magazine)|Neon]] | pages = 52 | date = December 1998 }}</ref>

Soderbergh cites [[Nicolas Roeg]]'s 1973 film ''[[Don't Look Now]]'' as the primary influence on how he approached the love scene between Foley and Sisco: "What I wanted to create in our movie was the intimacy of that, the juxtaposition of these two contrasting things ... We had to mix it up and have you feel like you were more in their heads."<ref name= "Showbiz"/>

[[Danny DeVito]] and [[Garry Shandling]] were considered for the part of Ripley before [[Albert Brooks]] was cast.

The character Ray Nicolette also appears in Leonard's novel ''[[Rum Punch]]'', which was being filmed as ''[[Jackie Brown (film)|Jackie Brown]]'' when Universal Pictures was preparing to begin production on ''Out of Sight''. After [[Michael Keaton]] was cast as the detective Nicolette in ''Jackie Brown'', Universal subsequently cast him for a cameo in the same role in ''Out of Sight''. While [[Miramax Films]] owned the rights to the character because ''Jackie Brown'' went into production first, director [[Quentin Tarantino]] felt it was imperative that Miramax not charge Universal for using the character, allowing the character's appearance without Miramax receiving financial compensation. Nicolette appears in only one brief scene, whereas the character is a much more substantial element of ''Jackie Brown''.