Independent Film Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

  Edward Burns

  Independent, Actors, Shooting

  "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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• It's so hard to raise money for independent films and the fact of the matter is that the bigger my star or whatever is, as a result of doing bigger pictures, the easier it is for me to get money for my own projects.

  Edward Burns

  Stars, Independent, Matter

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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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• I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

  Nicolas Cage

  Independent, Roots, Film

  "Nicolas Cage Interview BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 17, 2009.

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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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• I'd like to do an independent film.

  David Boreanaz

  Independent, Film

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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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• 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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• 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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• This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

  Michael W. Smith

  Fall, Independent, Done

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• I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

  Rufus Sewell

  Independent, Who I Am, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Independent, People

  "At the top of his stand-up game" by Delfin Vigil, www.sfgate.com. August 23, 2007.

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• When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

  Salman Rushdie

  Independent, Issues, Film

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• The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Independent, World, Film

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• The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I'm certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.

  Jason Ritter

  Believe, Independent, Thinking

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• Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

  Robert Redford

  Confused, Mean, Independent

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• I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

  Dennis Quaid

  Independent, Way, Film

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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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• 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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