Top 1200 Indie Movie Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie rock.

I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.

We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships.

I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

In our age of Twitter and smartphones, there is no controlled release of a movie preview. The enigma of movie stars is lost.

I'm not sure that 'Iron Man' is a superhero movie. I think towards the end of the movie, Iron Man pretends to be a superhero - he's entertained by that notion. I think 'X-Men' is a sci-fi movie.

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.

They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.

The only way independent cinema can come out of its own rut is by learning to be more consistent. An indie filmmaker should feel responsible for others as well.

I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.

There are rules in movies. I did a movie playing a bad cop who was a heroin addict but they wouldn't let me smoke in a movie.

'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it.

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you can't airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.

As a reader and as a viewer, usually when I watch a movie, I'm caught up enough in the movie that I'm not breaking it down to the details anyway.

The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.

There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell that seem to fall a little bit more on the indie level.

My favorite older movie of all-time is "Scarface." Al Pacino played that role so well. It's a longer movie, but I like it.

Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.

Alden Ehrenreich is a drama nerd, and Alice Englert is indie girl. They're so cool in the way that our characters are cool.

The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.

If you're trying to solve a problem that is fundamentally important to human society, that's really important to our mission at Indie Bio.

If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

I've always had the luck or blessing that someone would say, 'I liked what you did in that movie. I'd like you to be in my movie.'

When I am sitting in a movie theater with my girlfriends or boyfriend, I think how cool would it be to watch a movie with me in it.

I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

There was no indie rock band in the 90s at the level of, like, Grizzly Bear. I listen to their records and it's crazy how good they sound. That really freaks me out.

I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

It's rare that a movie generally considered a popcorn type movie, gets recognized among such serious, great fare.

I love indie record stores, man. I love anything that's about independence and preserving the brand of good music.

The most interesting indie titles always tend to come out of nowhere for me. That's part of the fun for me.

In a zombie apocalypse movie, nobody's ever seen a zombie movie. Or in an alien invasion movie, nobody has ever seen an alien invasion movie, like 'Independence Day.'

I play a lot of games. I love indie games.

I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

When I read the first 'Sharknado' movie, I thought it was terrible. I told my wife that I couldn't do this movie, that it would be the end of my career.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

I've lost count of the number of blokes who've come up to me over the years and said 'thanks for making it OK for indie guys to get on the dance floor.'

Then you have these people in the movie theaters that talk the whole time during the movie. You ever go with somebody like that to a movie but you don't realize until you get there that you're with somebody like that? Brand new movie. First day it's open. You're there together and the entire time they're sitting there: Where's she going? Why'd he do that? Is he mad at her? I don't know, let's watch and find out together shall we? You know who you are. You're denying it right now: I do not do that. Why is she saying that?. What's she gonna say next?

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.

People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.

Life is like a movie to me. Everybody has their own movie that's playing out every day, and you're writing it.

Movie criticism is very subjective and everyone has the right to voice their opinion. You go to a movie and decide whether you like it or not.

It's a mistake to just go make a movie where the whole thing is talking down to the kids like, "Ok, we gotta bring the IQ of this movie down because it's a kids movie" You don't have to do that, kids can laugh and parents can laugh at different parts and that's fun, and you see that with all of the great kids movies.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

The 'Star Wars' movie is coming out. Disney has kept the details of the movie under wraps because they're not Sony.

I've produced before, and sometimes it's by default. In the indie level, you can't just come to set and be like, 'Oh, I'm an actor.' You have to be willing to help out, make the project happen.