Quotes About Independent

If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.

You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.'

When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.

I ran for parliament in 1980 as an independent against Allan J. MacEachen.

I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur.

The Foreign Affairs Committee is first in line to call for the U.K. to take a more active and independent role in world affairs, and to have the resources to do so. But a large part of that role involves working with allies and leveraging the range of our assets in co-ordination.

Cats are so wonderful because they're furry, purry and totally independent.

I came from an entrepreneurial family. My father and five generations of people in my family do not make good employees.

People believe Mahesh does what I ask him to. That's not true. He may look shy and gentle, but he knows his mind.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Im not your biggest girly girl.

I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

I'm not a girly girl. I don't brush my hair.

I'm not a girly girl at all.

I'm not a girly girl. I never have been.

I want to shoot some indies, some independent features that give me some space to play a little bit.

I'm glad I was never in a band.

I don't want to choose between commercial and independent cinema. I just want to choose between a good film and a bad film.

One of the most bitter complaints of craft brewers is that big beer wins consumers by introducing beers whose names resemble the names of actual independent beers. After New Belgium came out with a popular beer called Sunshine Wheat, MillerCoors, through its Leinenkugel brand, came out with a beer called Sunset Wheat.

In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.

I'm also on the Board at Sundance, so I've seen witnessed first hand the power of independent storytelling.

'Guardian' journalism itself will remain what it has always been: thoughtful, progressive, fiercely independent and challenging, and also witty, stylish, and fun.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

I think Finns in general, we are quite calm and I think we're mentally in general quite strong, and we don't mind to be alone. We are lonely wolves, a lot of us.