Best Independent Film Quotes

The great thing about an independent film is that you’re too busy working, and you’re too busy hoping to God to get it done.

I was still making movies so it wasn’t as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn’t find distributors.

I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.

You earn very little money on independent films and I’m the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

I’ve directed independent film.

I do love directing. I’m only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.

When you’re making an independent film and you care about it so much you do all the prep work beforehand.

Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.

I watch mostly independent films.

I’m confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don’t know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I’ve done.

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you’re lucky if you have five takes.

I came out of independent film, that’s my roots.

I came out of independent film, that’s my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.

This fall I’m doing something I’ve never done before. I’m starring in a film, an independent film.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn’t exist anymore.

I think that there’s a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don’t have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

When you’re making an independent film what you don’t have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

It’s really a great luxury to have, to be able to go from big films to indie films, too. Because I’m on the job learning as an actor, and independent films is where I’m learning to act.

To make independent films, you can’t think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

I’d like to do an independent film.

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don’t get to the mainstream.

If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films – I love them both.

In the beginning, it wasn’t even a question of deciding I’m going to do independent film and not commercial films – I wasn’t being offered any commercial films, and there wasn’t an independent scene.

I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies that in all likelihood are made without stars. And then they have to rely just on the material.

When I started out in independent films in the early 70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn’t about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You’d die before you’d be bought.

You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts.