Top 1200 Indie Movie Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don't want to be a small indie band.

Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make its money back, everybody has to go see the movie, and if everybody has to go see the movie, then it can't be about anything.

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

I've always been in this weird indie world, and for a long time, I felt that it was not okay to be girly in that world.

It's not uncommon to hear people say that the re-entry into their lives is very hard. A lot of actors say that the hardest thing about working is not working, because you go from one of the most structured environments in the world to a place of no structure. Maybe that's why you see someone go from movie to movie to movie.

I would agree Paul is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one's a movie. Oftentimes, it's based on a video game.

I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.

You think it's so cool to have movie stars in your movie, but they become people.

I would agree 'Paul' is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

I was in the top 1 percent of football players. Indie guys are in the bottom 95 percent of wrestlers.

And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

I don't like, speaking about the movie, if I may say couple more words, I like a movie that doesn't drag too much, unless it's purpose. I like a movie with an action with a certain pace. If it's too monotone, I hate it. No, I don't hate it, I just don't like it, period.

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

The sad thing about working on a movie is that you can never see the movie.

We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.

If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen. The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.

My favorite movie is 'Die Hard.' It doesn't have pinatas and mariachis. It's just a good movie.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

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

Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema.

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

I used to have a group called Bad-Movie Saturday. Every Saturday, six of us would go see the worst movie that came out each weekend. It'd be noon in Burbank. It was just a running commentary. All executives - we would each talk through the movie and make jokes.

'The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.

They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I actually heard hip-hop before I saw a movie in a movie theater. I heard hip-hop first, at the tender age of seven, so that came first. I didn't see a movie until I was eight.

Studio films are driven by marketing. The currency is literally money. But in the indie world, the currency is passion.

The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.

When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like Inception, so we were just like, "Yeah, that makes the movie sound really smart!" It's so much better then my original title, Explosion. Well, there might be an explosion in the movie.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

I think I've been lucky enough not to have to do movie after movie after movie for financial reasons, so I've been able to live life and also make movies. I didn't have to grind them out. I could go long periods where I was living life rather than tripping over cables.

I'm indie through and through. I've always gone out with boys in bands.

I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.

Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie).

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

When I go to the movie theater, I want to get emotion from the actors in the movie.

When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.

I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.

I would never make a movie just for the sake of making a movie.

the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

If you're doing a movie, the minute you put a monster in it, it becomes a horror movie.

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

For a while, my favorite movie was 'Vertigo.' Everything in that movie was captivating to me.