Quotes About Independent

I personally like to do independent films.

I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

I'm no one's pet, and I intend to be an independent voice in the U.S. Senate.

To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

We made 'Mickey and the Bear' with barely any money with a first-time director, a first-time director of photography, and a crew who had just graduated from NYU film school. We were all very much in this together for the first time. There's no famous actor or big explosions. It's not a Marvel movie. I thought nobody was going to see this film.

I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

I feel like, with makeup, I really picked it up on my own. There's no one really in my family - my grandma is probably the closest - who loves makeup like I do.

Indie music is picking up and artistes are more confident about putting out music with no big name attached to it.

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.

I think the fact that I've always been left or right of mainstream cowboy hats and boots has made me hard to pin down.

Fortunately, there is a project that will create jobs, provide direct investment in our economy, and move us closer to our longstanding goal of becoming energy independent: the Keystone XL pipeline.

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two-Bit Waltz.'

I don't ever wanna be mainstream.

I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.

I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to be there. It makes all the difference in the world. It's without ego and agenda, other than just wanting to fulfill a creative dream.

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.