Audience Quote by Gren Wells

When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a life actually…

— Karen Allen

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

The film industry needs to find a way to bring audiences to movie theaters. It's more of a technical trick than a revolution.

— Michel Ocelot

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

— Robin Tunney

I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors…

— Steve Buscemi

New media has made it possible for filmmakers like me to get their message out. No big Hollywood studios are needed anymore to make…

— Robert Greenwald

The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to go report…

— Tom Hanks

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

— Anurag Kashyap

Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get…

— Laura Ziskin

There is a business here first of all, as a company and secondly, the ability to make films that audiences want to see and…

— Courtney Solomon

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

But you just don't know where any film is going to go, or how it's going to end up. Films so often don't get…

— Lulu Wang