A Quote by Mitra Farahani

Never seek financial independence in independent cinema since independent cinema doesn't make money.

Mitra Farahani

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Mitra Farahani
Iranian - Filmmaker
Born: January 27, 1975

If there's one thing that can save the novel, it is to make it independent of cinema, to narrate in a way that cinema can never narrate, using to its benefit those particular characteristics which belong to writing.

Agustin Fernandez Mallo

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

Anurag Kashyap

British independent television is exactly the same as independent cinema. Very low budget, interesting, cutting edge stuff.

Janet McTeer

Working in independent cinema is far more frustrating than mainstream because it is difficult to get money to make such films.

Ranvir Shorey

I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news.

Sarita Choudhury

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

Brian Cox

['American Dream' will be released] probably never.Never in the United States because there's no room for independent cinema.

Janusz Kaminski

That's the thing with independent cinema: They all get good reviews, and they don't make money. Some of them are good. Some are great. And some are terrible.

Robert Englund

An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.

Eamon de Valera

For people to understand, you can't speak 'cinema.' Cinema doesn't have alphabets, so you have to go to the local language. Even in England, if they make a movie in London they have to make it in the Cockney accent, they can't make a film with the English spoken in the BBC. So cinema has to be realistic to the area that it is set in.

Suhasini Maniratnam

Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not.

Priyanka Chopra

Independent means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want. It's where you feel the director, not a machine, at work. It doesn't matter where the money comes from. It matters how much freedom the director has to work with his or her team. That's how I personally define independent movies.

Alexander Payne

I was around New York at a time when independent cinema was at its peak and became kind of popular and mainstream. It got some hype, culturally. After that, studios started to have independent companies within their studio system, and they found bigger stars willing to do new material. That's kind of what it's turned into.

Parker Posey

I love Bollywood films, but I have been trained in independent cinema.

Sarita Choudhury

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality or impartiality, though. You can be biased and irrational, but as long as you're independent, you won't make the group any dumber.