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

  Gena Rowlands

  Independent, Passion, People

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

  Neve Campbell

  Independent, Interesting, Scripts

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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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• I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

  Mira Nair

  Independent, Cutting, Firsts

  "'Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor'". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.

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• I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Independent, Thinking, Eccentric

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• You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Character, Independent, Would Be

  Interview with Wil Anderson, www.gq.com.au. April 1, 2011.

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• I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.

  Ethan Hawke

  Independent, Cutting, Bucks

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• The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

  Guy Pearce

  Communication, Independent, Film

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• I've directed independent film.

  Vin Diesel

  Independent, Film

  "Vin Diesel Interview - Fast and Furious". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 25, 2009.

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