Indie Films Quotes

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

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

I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home. ~ Charlie McDermott

I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it. ~ Kodi Smit-McPhee

I started in the theater world in New York City - and indie films - and I love the feeling of your head coming together and trying to tell a simple story, a small story, and just getting that vibe of storytelling without all the craziness of big budget. ~ Andre Royo

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

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

I'm a big fan of character actors like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman. My goal is to continue playing character roles in indie films and move into playing character leads. ~ Thomas Ian Nicholas

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas. ~ Robert Stromberg

Maybe I could do some indie film and get my kit off. I'd never say never. ~ Konnie Huq

I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. 'One for you, one for me,' is what they say. ~ Rhys Wakefield

I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about ... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm. ~ Laura Mennell

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

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.

The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes. ~ David Tennant

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

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

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values. ~ Steven Spielberg

I did B com but realised that it was not my cup of tea. I was always fascinated by animation, and after I completed my course, I wanted to go abroad and pursue it. I used to sketch a lot and was rather serious about it. But all this was until I joined films. ~ Emraan Hashmi

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality. ~ Phoebe Cates

I ideally would like to do three films every year. Every day, I pray for it. But I should like a script before I sign on a film. ~ Shahid Kapoor

I always look at these superhero films, and I see people hurdling towards at a hundred miles per hour, and then they get up, shake their head, and charge back at a hundred miles per hour. Nobody seems to really get injured or hurt. I don't find any threat in that. There is no tension in that whatsoever. ~ Martin Campbell

I don't know what will be left of me fifty years from now. I suspect that all films will have aged terribly and that the cinema probably won't even exist anymore. My guess is that the final disappearance of cinemas will take place around the year 2020, so in fifty years' time, there will be nothing but television. ~ Jean-Pierre Melville

Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience. ~ Katori Hall

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern ... Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult. ~ George Orwell

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die. ~ R. Lee Ermey

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. ~ Guillermo Del Toro

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films. ~ David Nicholls

Most of my films deal with people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. They want to change, but they need something to push them. I think it's mostly love that causes them to break their routines and move on. ~ Wong Kar-Wai

I always was afraid of looking films with different killings, but look me now. Now I'm a maniac of looking films which have brutal killings like films by Stephen King. ~ Deyth Banger

It's arguable whether a hit song is gonna add to the business a film does. There are plenty of films that didn't do any business and sold a million albums. ~ John Hughes

I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors. ~ Tom Green

Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It's been reflected in a lot of their work. It's self-reflective, it's quite knowing, but it's very literate. ~ Simon Pegg

I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at the same time, I go directly to Hollywood for financing and distribution. I find it's best for me to work within the Hollywood system. ~ Spike Lee

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films! ~ Rohit Shetty

The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.' ~ Alexander Payne

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them. ~ Eriq La Salle

I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else. ~ Oscar Isaac

I never really thought I went away because I've written all of the movies and I'm produced them all and certainly provided services about and beyond the average producer on two and three. I was on set most of the films and called action and cut a lot of times and did all that good stuff. ~ Paul W. S. Anderson

My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters. ~ Teddy Sears

Making a Hollywood film you don't have a very big movie because they have a Safety Captain and insurance people on the set. They have to check first. 'Don't do it. Let me check. Make sure everything is safe.' ~ Jackie Chan

In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple. ~ Leslie Cockburn

Some period pieces are shot slightly objectively, a little bit, and some call it stuffy or dusty or old fashioned. I always felt that some of the films that I admire the most are the ones where they're intimate with the characters. ~ Nikolaj Arcel

I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor. ~ Arjun Rampal

I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better. ~ Pete Docter

Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films. ~ Pierce Brosnan

We've got a great team of editors, that's true. And we work hard so that when we do the couple of takes that they're good takes hopefully. Not always, that's for sure; there are lots of bad ones, but we try to work hard. Clint Eastwood doesn't more than one or two takes in his films. And he makes some good films. ~ Emily Deschanel

I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in. ~ Oliver Stone

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films. ~ Jodie Foster

I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn't. ~ Ronald Frame

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution. ~ Dev Anand

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. ~ Richard Linklater

I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a wonderful cocktail. ~ Susanne Bier

You want war??
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Out there you can find books, films about the war how brutal is it. If you disire for more... it sounds like you are cruel, so far I can understand it you are the bad guy, aren't you? ~ Deyth Banger

Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting to me, people leave the theater and they start asking themselves questions and find their own moral compass about what these characters have been doing. ~ Michael Fassbender

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem. ~ Jane Campion