Indie Films Quotes

• I just filmed a movie with my boyfriend, an indie film called 'Conception.' And it's kind of like an R-rated version of 'Valentine's Day.' So it's like all about eight couples, and me and my boyfriend play one of them together. And that was a lot of fun.

  Sarah Hyland

  Valentines Day, Couple, Fun

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• Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

  Kevin Smith

  Film, Grew Up, Grew

  "Kevin Smith faces protests as he unleashes 'Indie 2.0'" by Bob Tourtellotte, www.reuters.com. January 24, 2011.

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• You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

  Anna Paquin

  Marketing, Liberty, Different

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

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• All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.

  Sandra Oh

  Jobs, Mean, Years

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• I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Would Be, Film, Bigs

  "Chloë's world" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

  Christopher Meloni

  Dog, Vegas, Blue

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• There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

  Frank Capra

  Movie, Inspiring, Sin

  Recalled on his death in People, 16 Sep 1991.

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• Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!

  Anthony Mackie

  Independent, Crafts, Scripts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.

  Kevin Smith

  Artist, Trying, Clerks

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• I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.

  Charlie McDermott

  Children, Home, Pennsylvania

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• I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.

  Michael Trevino

  Writing, Thinking, East

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

  Thomas Lennon

  Book, Writing, Crafts

  Source: www.gq.com

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• If you do an indie film, where it's like, "We don't have a lot of money to give you, but we'll really give you a lot of freedom," that's really a luxury to have in this business. At least for myself, because I'm still kind of earning my acting credibility.

  Dave Bautista

  Luxury, Giving, Acting

  Source: dailydead.com

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• My biggest difference with our film and those kinds of science fiction films is that they are going from one special effect set piece to the next, what we were doing was more of a character study. And I think that is the freedom that you get by doing an Indie film. You can only really do that with a lower budget. So I understand where the conflict is between those two priorities.

  Duncan Jones

  Character, Thinking, Two

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• I really feel like indie films are where I learn to be a better actor, especially because they always give you a bit more freedom to collaborate.

  Dave Bautista

  Giving, Actors, Film

  Source: dailydead.com

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• It's really a great luxury to have, to be able to go from big films to indie films, too. Because I'm on the job learning as an actor, and independent films is where I'm learning to act.

  Dave Bautista

  Jobs, Independent, Luxury

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.

  Eddie Jemison

  Done, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I lived in New York, there wasn't as much TV or film around. I got asked to do a couple of indie films, just based on me being from The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle. I did a couple of indie movies from Japan and one from Canada, and I thought it was an exciting, fun thing to do. I had a great time doing it, it was just that, in New York, there really wasn't as much. My studio in New York closed, so I moved out to L.A. and just started looking into composing as another thing to do, as a musician. I like it a lot. It's fun and it's a different way of thinking about music.

  James Iha

  New York, Couple, Fun

  "James Iha on Scoring James Franco’s ‘Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 17, 2016.

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• We rehearsed for a bit for an Indie film, which is kind of unusual, we had a week of rehearsals before we actually shot the films so we were able to really break down the script and kind of work through all of the improvisational things that he wanted to do, so he had a chance to really feel his way through before we actually shot it and I think that helped a lot.

  Duncan Jones

  Thinking, Able, Way

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• I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.

  Robert Stromberg

  Ideas, Creative, Would Be

  "Director Robert Stromberg Talks MALEFICENT, Joining the Film, Finding the Look for the Title Character, Casting Angelina Jolie, and Editing the First Act". Interview, collider.com. May 31, 2014.

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• Well, that's the great thing about indie film, in general. If it's not subject to the constraints of too much pressure from the studio or marketing, and all of that, you get to actually present fuller characters and you get to have the dark side of the characters. That's usually what gets cut out.

  Ty Burrell

  Character, Cutting, Dark

  Source: collider.com

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• Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it's enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that.

  Noel Clarke

  Rights, Together, Credit

  "Interview: Noel Clarke Talks To S&A About ‘Storage 24,’ Entering US Market, UK’s Black Talent Drain, ‘Bad Boys’ UK & More…" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

  Jeff Daniels

  Years, Television, Lasts

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• I've done a lot of very low-budget indie films, so it was just really exciting and fun to be doing a film where there's a lot more time and these huge, vast sets. I was like a kid in a playground. It was amazing!

  Felicity Jones

  Fun, Kids, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• Maybe I could do some indie film and get my kit off. I'd never say never.

  Konnie Huq

  Film, Never Say Never

  "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.

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