Quotes About Independent

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

It's like trying to herd a flock of geese," said Orik. "They're always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they'll bite your hand first chance they get.

Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get.

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.

I'm single. I'm independent. And I'm dating. I think if you're honest that you're dating, there's nothing wrong with that.

As a family they still flew the flight of the immigrant rocket, the upward, unbroken immigrant trajectory from slave-driven great-grandfather to self-driven grandfather to self-confident, accomplished, independent father to the highest high flier of them all, the fourth-generation child for whom America was to be heaven itself. No wonder he couldn't shut up.

Instinct is an animal faculty, independent of instruction and reasoning, but far inferior to intuition, which is a grace unique to humanity.

He has no master here. He is an independent agent and pursues his own agenda.

Oh, that's sad. You resorted to an arbitrary number. That reveals a shallow capacity for independent thought and analysis.

I wish you and Dad had known him the way I did," she said wistfully. "He's such a contradiction. Rough and surly on the outside, but gentle and compassionate on the inside." "It sounds as though you're describing your father." She pondered her mother's words. "Nolan is a lot like Daddy. Principled and proud. Independent to a fault. I didn't realize that in the beginning, only later.

I'm a good assistant. That's why I don't have an assistant, because I'm so on it that no one can be as on it as me. I know that.

I am totally pro-non-partisan elections.

I want to encourage the non-star, low-profile film, and maybe we've got a chance.

Freelancers generally want as friction-free an engagement as possible.

Part of me is very entrepreneurial.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. ~ Theophile Gautier

We can also express this as: when certain factors come together, a certain result actualizes. We may possess abilities to recognize these factors and thus even foresee how they will turn out, but the factors themselves are significantly independent of our psychic abilities.

The physical brain continues to be probed, and electromagnetism continues to be thought of as the carrier of ESP "signals," while all along, new wave research in physics has virtually established the fact that there is a second reality that operates totally independently of any brain-electromagnetic arrangement. In fact, the old reality pales in importance if the basic elements of the new second reality are grasped.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

America is the smart-aleck adolescent who's "been around" and has his own hot rod.

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.