Independent Film Quotes

• I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

  Danny Elfman

  Independent, Thinking, Play

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• I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.

  Vera Farmiga

  Jobs, Character, Independent

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. March 30, 2011.

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• I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Hate, Independent, Watches

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• So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

  Maria Menounos

  Independent, College, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.

  Loretta Devine

  Independent, People, Starting Over

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• Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

  Atom Egoyan

  Dream, Independent, Careers

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• I've love to do more movies. Just because I'm interested in the medium very much. I've done a lot of theatre at this point, and I've done a lot of TV. I've done a few independent films, but a lot of them have not seen the light of day. It'd be really nice to be in a film that gets out there.

  Morena Baccarin

  Nice, Independent, Light

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

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• When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Independent, Film, Memento

  "Steven Soderbergh & Shane Carruth Talk 'Upstream Color,' Its Lack Of Cats & Suspicious Marketing In China" by Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. April 09, 2013.

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• I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.

  Neve Campbell

  Independent, Interesting, Scripts

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• Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

  Anthony Anderson

  Fun, Independent, Cutting

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

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• People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

  Gena Rowlands

  Independent, Passion, People

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• The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

  Wim Wenders

  Independent, Criticism, Age

  "The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Independent, Support, Actresses

  "Dynamic Duos: Jill Soloway and Gaby Hoffmann Are Ready to Inhabit Your Brain". Interview with Jessie Katz, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 3, 2014.

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• The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

  James Woods

  Independent, Careers, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. But if you go to foreign films, if you go to documentaries, if you go to independent films, if you go to good films, you will become a better person because you will understand human nature better. Movies record human nature in a better way than any other art form, that's for sure.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Independent, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• I'm drawn to a lot of first-time directors. One of the great common denominators in these small independent films is that there's a person, or two people, who have an absolutely monomaniacal passion to get these films made. That's what makes them happen. Sometimes, it takes years and years to finally get it done, but by never backing down, by never giving up, they get these films to the screen by hook or by crook.

  William H. Macy

  Giving Up, Independent, Passion

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Hard Work, Independent, Years

  "Scarlett Johansson Is the Sexiest Woman Alive, 2006" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. October 31, 2006.

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• You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label. There's like, 18 different independent film-financing funds. In fact, I think the children of those films are getting made. A more interesting question is whether those films are going to get seen and appreciated.

  Edward Norton

  Children, Independent, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.

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• Independent film is for actors that love to act.

  John Leguizamo

  Independent, Actors, Film

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

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• Lots of TV is kind of becoming almost the new form for adult storytelling and cinema, but still with some independent films you still have those kind of jewels that people are able to make and it takes a lot of effort.

  Alicia Vikander

  Independent, Jewels, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now. So that's why everybody wants to do it. I mean if you're writing stuff like, you know, Fargo, or True Detective, or any of these things that are on, Breaking Bad, there are no rules in television.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mean, Independent, Writing

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passion of the crew. They're not getting a whole lot of money, so you know they are not there because they want to get rich. Instead, they are there because they want to make a movie. In the bigger films, I remember when I used to do those, it's just a job for a lot of people, so there is less of an intense energy devoted to the whole project.

  Amy Irving

  Jobs, Passion, Independent

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• After six years of working on low-budget independent films of the too-weird-to-watch variety, being asked by DreamWorks to come and play with the big boys, it was like finding an unicorn in your sock drawer.

  Sienna Guillory

  Independent, Boys, Years

  Vanity Fair, December 2001.

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• I went to the top of the mountain in television and could do anything I wanted, but I wanted to do an independent film, which results in you paying your own way, fighting like hell to get distribution, and maybe 30 people will see it. That was a good idea.

  Joel Surnow

  Independent, Fighting, Ideas

  "Christopher Meloni and Writer/Director Joel Surnow Talk SMALL TIME, Returning to a Script from 1976, Casting Process, SIN CITY 2, and SURVIVING JACK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• For me, whether or not a film has some kind of massive budget or is an independent film, or however it's getting made, it's always about the filmmaker and, hopefully, being a vessel for the filmmaker's vision. That's what really attracts me to projects.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Independent, Vision, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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