Indie Quotes · Page 3

I love PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Pixies, Portishead, and Massive Attack: a lot of what I would describe as alternative and indie…

— Shura

Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie…

— Parker Posey

The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.

— Michael Azerrad

I was first an indie actor, so I also want that more opportunities be given to people in the indies.

— Coco Martin

I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.

— Chloe Sevigny

I'd actually love to do more comedy, but what I really wanna do is an indie drama - an intense indie road-trip…

— Finn Wolfhard

As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that…

— Mahershala Ali

On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers…

— Aaron Paul

I'm a big fan of character actors like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman. My goal is to continue playing character roles in…

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people…

— Edward Burns

The good thing about the studio is that, when the movie comes out, they will put their marketing and their money behind…

— Jamie Linden

There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool,…

— Ralph Macchio

I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie film roles…

— Courtney Ford

There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell…

— Anne Fletcher

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually…

— Amy Lee

I don't really listen to the radio anymore, but some of the more contemporary people I like are Stereolab, Spiritualize, Yo La…

— Dean Wareham

The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground” Indie Record Stores that avid…

— Dale Watson

I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream…

— Steve Coogan

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm.

— Ed Westwick

I've always been in this weird indie world, and for a long time, I felt that it was not okay to be…

— Natalie Prass

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

— Kathleen Edwards

I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can…

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

I was in the top 1 percent of football players. Indie guys are in the bottom 95 percent of wrestlers.

— Baron Corbin

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

— Anonymous

There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really…

— Michael Azerrad

The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.

— David Tennant

So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.

— Marti Noxon

I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one…

— Forest Whitaker

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

— Rosie Perez

Whether I'm on a major or an indie, I don't think this is important, but at the same time I do.

— Devendra Banhart

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…

— Gillian Jacobs

This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted.

— Ketch Secor

A film that I love is 'Raising Arizona' and that's funny but it's quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I'd…

— Stephen Moyer

The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' is very experimental. It's pop meets urban meets indie meets alternative.

— Julia Michaels

Indie movies can be a lot more stressful than studio pictures. The stakes are just as high whether you're talking $3 million…

— Brian Reitzell

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

— Arvind Gupta

I really feel like indie films are where I learn to be a better actor, especially because they always give you a…

— Dave Bautista

I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss…

— John Oates

There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big…

— Sam Tsui