Best Indie Sayings
102 Indie quotes by 92 unique authors
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I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a…
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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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 Hollywood terms.
— Steve Coogan
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Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
— Billy Corgan
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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.
— Louis C. K.
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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…
— Zooey Deschanel
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To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.
— Drake
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I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.
— Kirsten Dunst
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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…
— Alex Kapranos
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually…
— Talib Kweli
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
— Tatiana Maslany
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People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to…
— Christopher Meloni
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Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.
— Moby
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The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.
— Steven Morrissey
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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…
— Conor Oberst
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Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the…
— Yoko Ono
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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…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films…
— Jason Reitman
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I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.
— Chloe Sevigny
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One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses…
— Rob Sheffield
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When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest…
— Rob Sheffield
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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…
— Kristen Stewart
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I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good,…
— Taylor Swift
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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…
— Gabrielle Union
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I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.
— Sigourney Weaver
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I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.
— Kristen Wiig
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