Top 502 Indie Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
To jump from the indie ranks to play with the big dogs, there's a gate you have to pass through.
On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.
It's so funny because the roles that I've been offered in the indie film world have been similar to each other, and the roles that I've been offered in the TV world have been similar to each other, but the TV roles and the indie film roles have been completely different.
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
I do not differentiate between a commercial and an indie project as long as there is a strong subject and the character in the script is relatable.
You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.
I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.
There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.
I found my way into the indie world a bit late in my career, but it was something that I was really passionate about doing.
In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.
I really just wanted to work on adventure games, so Pinkerton Road is our own little indie studio that's focused on that.
Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.
Im really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.
Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally.
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.
I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.
In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think.
I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.
I would love to do an indie film, as I've grown to have a more serious side.
We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.
NME is normally associated with indie rock. It ain't something I read as a kid.
I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.
I'm used to doing U.K. indie films, like, six weeks of filming, tops.
Just because I run an indie label doesn't mean I don't think Jay-Z is nice.
I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.
I've never cared about being indie or cool. I wanted to be on 'Top of the Pops.'
I think there was a real lane built for indie bands during the time when Chairlift came up.
Manoj Muntashir is a fantastic lyricist of this generation and he has penned my indie number 'Ae Mere Dil' very nicely.
You don't want to end up being an indie wrestler who wants to be the big fish in a small pond.
I was first an indie actor, so I also want that more opportunities be given to people in the indies.
You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.
I would love to do anything from a really gritty, interesting, indie type film, to that commercial, bigger stuff.
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
Originally, 'The Monster' started out as this indie, Florence And The Machine, tribal-y, almost Spanish-esque dance record.
The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.
The only reason I was offered 'Punisher' was because I had made an indie film that was rated R for violence and was filled with fight scenes.
I've been in a lot of indie movies, where we didn't necessarily have permits or permission. I've even run from the cops in the New York City subways!
When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.
Don't expect me to be some indie schmindie embarrassed about my success.
I've written a soulful record but it's informed by my sort of indie guitar past.
Slamdance actually is indie and rebellious. Sundance obviously felt threatened.
No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.
I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.
I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down.
To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.
Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.
Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
Mal Blum's arrival on the indie scene gives us all hope for the future of smart music.
I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films.
I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.
As a successful artist it is my job to give the indie scene as much of a push as I can.
My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.
The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.
The indie movie world is like a bad Tinder date, and there are always strings attached.
This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted.
