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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 think people are willing to take more of a risk on an indie film, about character, etc...but at the same time, when I work on projects that are substantially bigger, in a way they do feel small. Even though the catering is way better and we actually have someone shooting with real film.... The budgets are bigger but the story still feels small, like an indie film.

  Adam Driver

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I believe in Mexico there's a big culture of moviegoing, both studio and indie. I think here in the US that's not the case because Latino communities don't have access to indie films. If you go into communities of color you will only find the big theater chains which only play the blockbuster genre films.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Believe, Thinking, Color

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Independent film is such a huge deal in the UK. There aren't many big budget studio movies that get greenlit at all. The indie film industy is a great opportunity that I'm trying to seize.

  Aml Ameen

  Independent, Opportunity, Trying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.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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• You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.

  Louis C. K.

  Mean, Men, People

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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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• 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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• It is hard to come up with ideas that are achievable on a scale that you know you are going to have for an indie film but it also have some kind of hook.

  Jake Schreier

  Ideas, Hook, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• Digital also had this evolution that came out of post-production. And George Lucas did it because he wanted to make a big movie with special effects. Sort of the opposite of what you'd think is an indie film. So it's coming from both these angles.

  Christopher Kenneally

  Thinking, Opposites, Special

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Thinking, Interesting, Important

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• I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there's lots more to come.

  Charlie Rowe

  Nice, Awards, Actors

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• I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.

  Eliza Coupe

  America, Chinese, Female

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

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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 started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called Satellite that did well in festivals.

  Stephanie Szostak

  Roles, Festivals, Soap

  "Want to Ditch Your Career to Chase Your Dreams? Satisfaction's Stephanie Szostak on How She Did Just That - and Ended Up a Star". Interview with Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. July 17, 2014.

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