Quotes About Independent

The X1 Search program: instant, precision searching by independent criteria (not just Google-style search string goulash) to pinpoint my files and emails going back to the 1980s. As info explodes, and my memory doesn't get better, it's a godsend.

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

You can make a really good film for under a million dollars, like 'October Baby,' or under a half million, like 'Hardflip.'

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

In 1998, I set up and directed a research group at the Nanotechnology Institute newly created in the Research Center of Karlsruhe. This allowed to offer to former post-doctoral coworkers the opportunity to develop and to progressively set up independent research activities in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

I chose to continue independent because, at the time I was being offered deals, it wasn't fitting into what I'd imagined. I decided to take a gamble on myself and see what happens.

A lot of people assumed for all those years that I was the official announcer for HBO because I had done almost all their fights. I worked on all of them independently.

Oh, I never fit in anywhere. I'm a loner. I don't even have many friends.

Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

I'm not beholden to one party or any special interests.

I'm a one-man band!

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

I wasn't a very convenient person for the leadership. I had my own opinion about things and knew how to insist on this.

I was always opinionated.

I was naturally opinionated.

I was told that since I am such an opinionated woman, people would think 10 times before approaching me for their films.

If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.

No disrespect, but I don't make decisions based on opinions.

There was nothing of the flaneur about the Bowery boy.

Among the popular errors of modern times, an opinion prevails that miracles are events which transpire contrary to the laws of nature, that they are effects without a cause. If such is the fact, then, there never has been a miracle, and there never will be one. The laws of nature are the laws of truth. Truth is unchangeable, and independent in its own sphere. A law of nature never has been broken. And it is an absolute impossibility that such law ever should be broken.

In an interstellar society where the Church ruled all but absolutely, news awaited not only independent confirmation but official permission to exist.