Brother Quote by Dennis Hopper

Independent films, for the most part, to me, are not so independent. They often feel like people auditioning for a big commercial career. They…

— Ron Eldard

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into…

— Marguerite Moreau

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all…

— Ron Perlman

I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny postage stamps.

— Kurt Voss

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

— David Fincher

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

— Bill Pullman

Whenever I'm asked about independent cinema, I think of what Fidel Castro said during the Cold War about the league of non-aligned nations. He…

— Alexander Payne

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want…

— Anthony Anderson

I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies…

— Steven Shainberg

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

— Anurag Kashyap

Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.

— William H. Macy

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days…

— Gary Oldman