Top 1200 Indie Movie Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

If you find yourself considering a project that seems like a layup, then you're diluted, or that movie's probably not the right movie for you to be making.

Maybe it's the way that I do music, but I was never in a cool indie band or hung out with all the cool arty kids when I came to London.

If you have a smartphone, you can give content to the world. The days of putting a movie in movie theaters because people don't have a choice is over.

It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.

For a movie - any movie - to work, all the bread has to fall jelly side up; everything has to go right. You have to hit the zeitgeist.

'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

There's a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.

You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

'Room' was a very dark movie, but 'Wonder' is a fun, light movie that sends out an important message. There is a big difference.

We were such movie nerds - I hate to say this, but yeah, we would just listen to movie soundtracks growing up.

I knew I wanted to do a movie, an action movie, and when I left WWE in 2011, I didn't specifically know. I didn't leave to do 'Boone: The Bounty Hunter.'

It takes a while to get a movie together, and they dont start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.

The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie's finished, that's for other people. But while you're doing it, that's your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.

I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.

I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm.

To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.

When I signed my movie contract, I thought I could never even have an opinion on a movie. But now, I've realized I have a lot of opinions.

I was a teenager, and I went to see the Superman movie, and up to the point I walked into that movie, I was a kid with no direction and no real purpose and no strong parental figures, and kind of aimless. I walked out of that movie knowing that whatever my life was going to be from then on, it had to have something to do with Superman, because something touched me emotionally with Christopher Reeve's performance.

Any movie I've done, my character has had a secret. Whether it's in the movie or not, it is usually never and it's usually not something I tell anybody. It is for me.

If I could spend the rest of my life inside one movie it would be The Godfather, because it's the greatest movie ever made.

In terms of big spectacle, I thought 'Captain America 2' was phenomenal. I really loved that movie, and it was a great movie as a stand-alone.

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

I would love to do a big movie - a 'Marvel' movie.

The first movie I produced was a movie that Joel Schumacher wrote and directed called 'Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill.'

I think anytime there's a big show on a network, people are also looking for what's the indie, stepchild version of this, the real DIY version?

You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.

Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought "Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!" That's not what I saw necessarily but I don't think any two people see the same movie.

Awards season is not something that I think about. What I enjoy a lot is knowing that people go and see the movie and they love the movie.

I can't make a movie unless I believe in the themes behind it. I mean, that's the first question I ask myself, always, is, 'What is this movie about?'

A Dirty Shame was a crazy movie. I don't understand that movie at all. I don't get it, but I'd work with John Waters again in a heartbeat. He's just a delight.

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.

There are a lot of people out there who offer roles to actors because they'll elevate their movie to a place the movie would never reach.

I was confused as to what kind of movie to do after 'A Aa'. It's then that someone suggested to me that I shouldn't do a soft movie once again.

Well, 'Terminator', it's just such an iconic movie in movie history. It's universal. I think it's part of the pop culture of the world.

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

A film that I love is 'Raising Arizona' and that's funny but it's quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I'd love to do something like that. Who knows?

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

I hope I can be a filmmaker where every movie will be different, and not make one type of movie. I'm always looking for a character that interests me.

In this movie, 'Jigarthanda,' audience can feel it as English movie because this BGM is totally different from Indian background score.

One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

You know 'The Shawshank Redemption?' I've seen that movie, like, 30 times or something. 'Dirty Harry,' too - I love that movie.

Sometimes I feel indie directors are in the game so they can make a film to get hired to do a big film - that we're all doing this person's reel.

Indie music is picking up and artistes are more confident about putting out music with no big name attached to it.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar's life. That is something I'm looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.

I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.

I liked the movie Splash a lot when I was little. I think we taped it when it was on TV, and then would watch the movie fairly often.

It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all.

I can go to a movie theater and sit there all day. I love movies. They intrigue my brain and they relax me. I am a movie buff.