Independent Film Quotes - Page 2

• There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

  Dick Wolf

  Mistake, Independent, Opportunity

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• There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.

  Eric Stoltz

  Independent, Accomplishment, Glue

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

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• The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

  Juno Temple

  Independent, Technology, Gadgets

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• I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

  Patrick Warburton

  Believe, Independent, Trying

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

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• TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

  Jessica Lange

  Independent, Age, Salary

  Interview with Ann Roth, April 2006.

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• Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.

  Ron Perlman

  Art, Independent, Cost

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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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• 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 was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.

  Linda Fiorentino

  Independent, Bars, Film

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

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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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• And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

  Terrence Howard

  Independent, Want, Corny

  "Terrence Dashon Howard: A rising star". Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. August 5, 2005.

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• The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Independent, Kind, Film

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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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• People say to me, 'You seem to have made this conscious decision to do independent films'. In reality, I haven't. After each movie, I always think, 'how different can I possibly be? Is this going to challenge me, is this going to inspire me, and is this going to make me love my job more than I already do?'

  Kate Winslet

  Jobs, Independent, Reality

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• In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

  Steve Buscemi

  Independent, Film, Scene

  "Living The High Life". Interview with Randee Dawn, www.backstage.com. September 30, 2003.

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• Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

  Diane Lane

  Independent, Different, Film

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• I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

  Spike Lee

  Independent, Hollywood Films, Hybrid

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

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• I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Independent, Film, Excited

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

  Gary Oldman

  Independent, Want, Becoming

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• I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

  Frances O'Grady

  Kids, Independent, Film

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• You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

  Edward Norton

  Independent, Labels, Film

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

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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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• 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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• When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

  Matthew Lillard

  Creativity, Independent, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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