Audience Quote by Nate Parker

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age…

— Wim Wenders

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

— Andrea Arnold

Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.

— Kevin Feige

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

— Duncan Roy

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

— Robert Redford

“The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience for unusual, original pictures - because they…

— Roger Ebert

Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about…

— Ramin Bahrani

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

— Wim Wenders

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

— Marti Noxon

One issue that I have with a lot of films is that they're so strongly 'about something' that it forecloses a person's participation in…

— RaMell Ross

There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.

— Errol Morris

I think what we're trying to do as filmmakers is make a big, gritty, raw, epic movie and within that show things graphically in…

— Rupert Sanders