Indie Movie Quotes

• In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

  Parker Posey

  Directors, Different, Studios

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When I lived in New York, there wasn't as much TV or film around. I got asked to do a couple of indie films, just based on me being from The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle. I did a couple of indie movies from Japan and one from Canada, and I thought it was an exciting, fun thing to do. I had a great time doing it, it was just that, in New York, there really wasn't as much. My studio in New York closed, so I moved out to L.A. and just started looking into composing as another thing to do, as a musician. I like it a lot. It's fun and it's a different way of thinking about music.

  James Iha

  New York, Couple, Fun

  "James Iha on Scoring James Franco’s ‘Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 17, 2016.

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• It gets super dark. I did a bunch of intense indie movies when I was starting out in my career and I was always in a bad mood because, when you're dealing with the subject matter of losing your baby, getting raped and all that stuff, it's not fun to go through. You really have to go there.

  Busy Philipps

  Baby, Fun, Dark

  Source: collider.com

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• I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Acting, Hiring, Retired

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

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• The good thing about the studio is that, when the movie comes out, they will put their marketing and their money behind it, which isn't necessarily true with indie movies, just by the nature of it being an independent film.

  Jamie Linden

  Independent, Marketing, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• My aunt was a fashion model and I happened to go to her agency with her, one day, when I was five. A talent agent said, "You should come talk to us." I did a few things. I did an indie movie and commercials, and stuff.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Fashion, Aunt, Agency

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been in a lot of indie movies, where we didn't necessarily have permits or permission. I've even run from the cops in the New York City subways!

  Gillian Jacobs

  Running, New York, Cities

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Short Film IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME, Creating Her Own Original Content, COMMUNITY, BAD MILO, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 15, 2013.

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• You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, People, Actors

  "Comic-Con: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Stephenie Meyer Talk THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN Pt. 2". collider.com. July 2, 2012.

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• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Dream, Character, Stuff

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• I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Independent, Thinking, Cinema

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