Actor Quote by Steven Shainberg

I just thought, given the practicalities of financing an independent movie, you have to have some names. That's just the way it works. You…

— George Ratliff

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.

— Joel Kinnaman

Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company.

— Scarlett Johansson

As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as…

— A. J. Bowen

It's very difficult to put together an independent movie and a lot of times people really don't hire casting directors for that. Instead, they…

— Barbara Crampton

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

— John Leguizamo

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in…

— Alexander Payne

Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.

— Gaby Hoffmann

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.

— Francis Ford Coppola

There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.

— Gaby Hoffmann

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

— Grimes

Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.

— Noah Baumbach