Top 1200 Indie Movie Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I'm going to go talk to some people to see if you could be in the movie because you should be in the movie.

Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.

The movie that really 'did it for me' was 'All About Eve.' The backstage feeling, the authenticity, the passion those people had for their lives in the theater. I must say, the movie 'All About Eve,' what a great movie! 'All About Eve' had a profound effect on my life.

I have immense respect for Unity because they played a key role in establishing this indie revolution, empowering a huge number of people to get into game development.

The 'Beavis and Butt-head' movie was just a movie-length version of the TV show.

Telltale signs that your movie is going to go bad is, one, the producer of the movie flees the country.

My favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber. It's a classic and I can pretty much recite the entire movie.

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.'

It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.

See I think we are nervous about every movie before it's release, irrespective of who has directed the movie.

In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

The golden age of Hollywood was the conceit of the movie and the style of the movie.

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.

The look of the movie and the music, which was by Jack Nitzsche, is what really stands out to me. I don't know if the movie succeeds as a political, cultural comment on the times and the war in Vietnam, and the capitalists versus the everyday guy that gets sent off to fight corporate wars. I don't know if the movie ever succeeded in that range. But it was a wonderful part in the Cutter's Way.

I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie.

Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

I really want to make something that makes people think. I love that movie 'Tiny Furniture' that Lena Dunham made. I just love that movie, and I laugh at that movie a lot, but I also felt a lot too. I'm just inspired by people like that.

I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.

Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.

Actors are real egomaniacs. They get into a movie, they think the whole movie's about them.

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

I've always spent a lot of time in movie theaters, kind of absorbing anything I can. I just love sitting in the dark, and watching the flickering image up there. Just sitting in a movie theater alone is inspiring to me. It takes a pretty bad movie to drain the magic out of that - but Lord knows, those movies exist.

It doesn't seem weird to me, at all. I'm in Baton Rouge getting ready to direct a movie for Sony, and I'm in the movie and I'm directing it. I know it's kind of this thing where some people find it difficult. I just finished a movie with Mario Van Peebles and he acted and directed as well too. I think we all feel similar that it just kind of seems natural.

The only lie I really remember from my adolescence was when I was in sixth grade and I was dropped off with a couple of friends at the movie theater to go see a movie, I can't remember which one it was, and we went to go see this movie instead that was rated R. That was sort of a defining moment, that was probably the first time I had ever lied to my parents about something.

The way a film can change over the generations... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals.

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.

I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.

I've had the opportunity to work on some really great indie features. One of them being 'Little Savages,' which is a super fun family film.

I think a movie released is better than a movie stuck.

It's unfortunate that it's not realistic that you can get people to come to a movie theater not knowing anything about the movie.

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

When I watch a movie, I want movie stars to be in love too.

Of course I think it's a movie for everybody [Insane Farting Corpse], but that's probably just because it's a movie for me.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

I put in all the dirty words. It works really well. The thing that we found with 'Drive Angry,' more than anything else is that we wrote the movie that we wanted to see. I've done that before. I've wanted to see 'Jason X'. It did not become the movie that I thought it would be. That happens. It's happened with every movie I've ever done.

I felt like I lived my movie, my 'Rocky' movie. So that was cool.

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

In '39, they had no problem with it. But today, there's a huge issue with a movie that has no male movie stars.

After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

I think, for me, I'm always more interested in the process of making the movie than the movie itself

When the movie comes to an end, you are not totally the same person you are when you started the movie.

I did the movie [Valley of Violence] from two perspectives. You're with Ethan [Hawke] the whole movie, but for the first half, you're really with Ethan. For the second half, you're with him, but also you're with the bad guys because he kind of becomes the bad guy. No one's really good in the movie.

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

It was great. We knew we were going back when we finished the movie. It was such a big movie [Star Wars].

I love Child's Play 2! That movie has a great theme: You better listen to children. That's why I wanted to do it. I was scared to do a horror movie - a blatant, studio horror movie - but I liked the script, and I thought that was such an important theme, because I don't think adults listen to children enough.

Nobody's made an impact like Raina Telgemeier or Kate Beaton. I think that indie creators, people making webcomics and graphic novels, are the ones to watch.

When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?'

I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

The first film I ushered was Lynne Ramsay's 'Morvern Callar.' I started at 18. Best job in the world. Blockbusters, indie films, classic matinees.

I can see my songs in a movie as long as it's a movie no one will watch.