Quotes About Independent

Independent films are the ones with the great possibility of keeping you on your toes, challenging your craft and skills, and forcing you to learn something new.

There's something I really love about independent filmmaking. Everyone is a little bit more close-knit, and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.

A third principle comes not from ancient Greece, but from the Farmers' Alliance. It is the importance of ideas, the need for independent analysis, developed and transmitted in a constant exchange with and among neighbors, and the need to teach it actively. Too much dogma, unquestioned across the political spectrum—such as that unlimited growth is a sign of health—serves to reinforce the business model of the kleptocrats, or to distract us from it.

Bones is, in short, my hero. She is like a one-woman marketing campaign for smart girls.

WANT YOU TO KNOW how safe and secure you are in My Presence. That is a fact, totally independent of your feelings.

Q: What do you call an ant that prefers to be alone? A: Independant.

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.

I came to New York, and it was a really cool time. People like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee were making their first movies, and they were making movies that were personal narratives.

'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they come out in the theater. They see them, after a period of years.

She's the ulimate heroine, strong-willed and independent, intelligent, loyal, but at the same time, she's not flawless, she's not above mistakes, or falling in love.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.

Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

He would hang out no signals, he would take notice of none.

At the time I would have endorsed the radical notions of R. D. Laing that insanity was a sane reaction to an insane society. Leaving the insane society to set up an independent self-sufficient commune seemed like a very sensible noble brave thing to do—plus it figured to be good for my mental health. Had I gone crazy in Boston or New York I would have blamed my culture and society without a second thought. The arguments were all packed, polished, and ready to fly.

when this original intellectual deduction is confirmed point by point by quite a number of independent incidents, then the subjective becomes objective and

The veneration of elders may be gone, but not because it has been replaced by veneration of youth. It's been replaced by veneration of the independent self.

Go fuck yourself, I replied, always the lady. I'm staying here.

In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the dead reach eternity, spells to be cast, prayers to be liturgically fleshed. . . . The aesthetic component of those instruments enhanced their function but was never central, never an independent, nonutilitarian thing.

It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.