Art Quote by Sissy Spacek

That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work.

— Sissy Spacek

I pretty much lived movie to movie in my younger years because I loved spending money, and I didn't really have a concept of…

— Stephen Dorff

The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. And that was the real disappointment of the time. You'd see great writer-directors in…

— Parker Posey

What you realize is it's not about financial success as an artist. A lot of actors and actresses, producers, writers, and the creative people…

— Jennifer Lopez

In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent…

— Ron Perlman

I think about the period of, like, the '70s and early '80s where nobody had money to make big movies and there was no…

— Ethan Suplee

How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was…

— Parker Posey

I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but…

— Vijay Sethupathi

I'd formed a research and development company under the banner of Paramount Pictures back in about 1975, and its mandate was to explore advanced…

— Douglas Trumbull

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For…

— Matthew Lillard

If you do an indie film, where it's like, "We don't have a lot of money to give you, but we'll really give you…

— Dave Bautista

I had starred in TV movies without much artistic value. They gave me a certain range. I knew that I was going to continue…

— Clemence Poesy