Cinema Quote by Mike Leigh Download Open image “Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.” — Mike Leigh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Filmmaking Forgotten Independent Independent filmmaking
I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point. — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where. — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Independent films are the ones with the great possibility of keeping you on your toes, challenging your craft and skills, and forcing you to… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years.… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made. — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking. — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films. — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult. — Steven Shainberg Copy Share Image
The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame. — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character. — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood. — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I take no notice of the trends. It has never concerned me at all. My job is to deal with what I want to… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a film in… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives? — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
