Top 1200 Independent Films Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I auditioned for everything. It was daily, relentless. Independent films, chewing gum commercials, television shows.

I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films.

I enjoy making films. I have made all kinds of films, including action films, romantic films, period films like 'Kala Pani.'

I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.

I enjoy making all kinds of films. I love action films, war films, period films, adventure films.

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

I really love independent films. There's something so determined about the people who work on them.

I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

I started doing independent films. My first one was 'Miss Bala,' which was very well-received at film festivals.

Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

Yes, a lot of European cinema and a lot of independent films and art-house stuff. She is a photographer. She is a visual artist and photographer and my dad is, too. My mum, I must credit for showing me good films. With my career, my parents were great and though they were a little wary, maybe, of the acting ambitions they have always been supportive.

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.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

When you're younger you don't care so much, but as you get older you have a family and stuff like that. But I've always kept my foot in theatre and I've kept my foot in independent film, so I'm really happy going back and forth. So, if I can't find the meaty roles in studio films, then I'll go back and dig up a little independent where I can flex my muscles a little bit.

I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.

Some independent Indian films do so well at these festivals in Europe and in the United States that when they come back, India just cannot ignore them.

Apart from being a playback singer for films, I'm also an independent musician.

I think most of the time with independent films, you don't know where it's gonna end up. I've done a number of films that may never see the light of day, so it ends up being exclusively about the content, material, the characters and the story. Things that you maybe wouldn't get an opportunity to do otherwise. So, as an actor, obviously it's so different.

Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.

The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.

You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts.

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

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

Though not into films, my family was associated with films. My grandparents financed films. They didn't like me getting into films. But, destiny willed it so.

I want to act in films and use all my financial resources to fund independent music.

Most of the independent films I've been involved with all had European subsidy or co-production agreements.

I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.

I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good.

I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.

The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.

I'm interested in the kind of anti-establishment ethos that goes with making an independent movie. I like to bring that to studio films - usually to the consternation of the studios.

Tokyo is wonderful for distribution of international films, a lot of Iranian films, Taiwanese films. But most of the art films are from Europe and Asia.

A film like 'Kai Po Che!', 'Queen', 'Behen Hogi Teri' and 'Bareilly Ki Barfi' are not really independent films.

I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

There is this thing called Actors Access, which is run by the breakdown services. What they do is they put up casting notices that are available to everyone. Because there's thousands and thousands of actors and there are student films and grad student films and, sometimes, some small independent projects that are on there.

Each form of the acting is different. I think it keeps your mind active. TV, film and theater are different disciplines, as are independent films, opposed to studio films. There are differences in the size and the genre, or a period drama as opposed to a contemporary drama, or the types of characters.

Independent films are really the best ones out there. They're the most original stories, and they're very good.

It's been TV and a lot of independent films. I'm so happy and blessed to have all these opportunities. But I'm also working on somebody else's project.

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.

With independent films, you again get to work with new directors and experiment too.

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

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. But if you go to foreign films, if you go to documentaries, if you go to independent films, if you go to good films, you will become a better person because you will understand human nature better. Movies record human nature in a better way than any other art form, that's for sure.

The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.

I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.

Independent film is film that has thought in it. There's no independent thought in studio films. It's collective thought.

I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of foreign and independent films there.

The 1960s and 1970s were the real years for independent film, because they were really independent. Plus, there were hundreds of distributors. There were all these companies that basically did exploitation, but they were independent. Now, there are very few independent distributors.

I've been doing mostly independent films, and things like 'Goal' give me a chance to have more options.