Top 502 Indie Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
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 want to balance my projects. Ideally, I'd like to do at least one indie film, a mainstream movie, and a TV series in a year - the best of both worlds.
On MySpace ... the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed. It's like an indie band thing. People think they've discovered you.
I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.
Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.
The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.
There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin.
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.
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.
Studio films are driven by marketing. The currency is literally money. But in the indie world, the currency is passion.
The indie shows are tons of fun. And for the fans, having that up close and personal experience is so different to watching wrestling on television at home.
So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.
The most interesting indie titles always tend to come out of nowhere for me. That's part of the fun for me.
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.
We have a lot of indie artists coming from Sweden, not so much soul. The closest thing we had was Robyn when she came out, but it's a different kind of R&B.
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.
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.
I play a lot of games. I love indie games.
There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists cant. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.
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.
You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.
I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.
There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.
I really feel like indie films are where I learn to be a better actor, especially because they always give you a bit more freedom to collaborate.
After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.
I don't really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.
The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.
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.
Stars are a part of our emotional psyche, but audiences should also support a good indie film which may not have a big star.
I'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.
We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.
I have friends with deals, both major and indie, and the ones on majors never seem as happy, and quite frankly aren't making music as strong as those on independents.
Major labels don't want to take chances on cooler, indie kind of things. People only know, unfortunately, what they're being spoon-fed.
I love indie record stores, man. I love anything that's about independence and preserving the brand of good music.
I was in the top 1 percent of football players. Indie guys are in the bottom 95 percent of wrestlers.
Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.
I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.
Maybe I could do some indie film and get my kit off. I'd never say never.
I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.
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.
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.
My one hope for Netflix and Amazon is to be a little more art house- and indie-friendly, pushing those just as hard as they push their originals.
I am from Chicago, but my dad is from Karachi, Pakistan, and my mom is from New Delhi, India. So, I've got a little Paki-Indie fusion going on here.
I love PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Pixies, Portishead, and Massive Attack: a lot of what I would describe as alternative and indie music.
I'm into a lot of different types of music - pretty much everything from blue grass to jazz to dub step to metal to indie experimental and progressive.
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 used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.
I want to play guitar, piano, drums, write songs for other people. I can do punk - I can do indie - but as long as it has my voice, it'll always be my sound.
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.
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.
I'm indie through and through. I've always gone out with boys in bands.
I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn't a big, huge tentpole movie, or if it wasn't on the radio, I hadn't experienced it.
Alden Ehrenreich is a drama nerd, and Alice Englert is indie girl. They're so cool in the way that our characters are cool.
It is hard to come up with ideas that are achievable on a scale that you know you are going to have for an indie film but it also have some kind of hook.
We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.
I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie rock.
It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.
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.
