Independent movies Quotes

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I…

— Nicolas Cage

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

— Balthazar Getty

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

— Brittany Snow

As a young actress, I started out acting in beautiful independent movies in Mexico.

— Teresa Ruiz

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

— Nick Stahl

I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.

— Bill Pullman

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

— Steven Shainberg

For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should wait and create…

— Tamala Jones

I used to do lots of independent films and for a while I was very content living in New York City and…

— Jared Harris

I've more than 50 hits in Bengali cinema and it's a great feeling to have them released separately in the form of…

— Jeet Gannguli

There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you…

— George Ratliff

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which…

— Faye Dunaway

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is…

— Mark Ruffalo

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's…

— Jacqueline McKenzie

I feel like with actors wanting to direct, you really only have a shot or two. You can't just make a bunch…

— Neil Patrick Harris

I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made.…

— Kevin Kline

The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in…

— Bill Murray

Independent means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's…

— Alexander Payne

I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge…

— Keira Knightley

Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really…

— John Waters

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

— Jason Patric

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

— M. Night Shyamalan

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

— Ray Liotta

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years

— Milla Jovovich

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.

— Julianna Margulies

You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

— Parker Posey

Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.

— Doug Liman

There are definitely strictly independent movies. 'Gummo' is one. Another is one I made, 'Fresh,' a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin…

— Lawrence Bender

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity…

— Jamie Bell

It's the independent movies. Most of these people never even got a wrap party on their movie.

— Nick Kroll

Based on the name value I had, I went to L.A. and got involved in independent movies.

— Stone Cold Steve Austin

I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.

— Boti Bliss

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

— John C. Reilly

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

— Chloe Sevigny

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

— John Cusack

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I like independent movies, documentaries. There's not a lot of movies that are commercially made that I dig.

— Jeff Garlin

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and…

— David Fincher