Great Indie Quotes

#1. I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It's a great indie label and I listen to music all day. I meet people online and find out about the cool new music blogs.

Sharon Van Etten

#2. I've had the opportunity to work on some really great indie features. One of them being 'Little Savages,' which is a super fun family film.

Katherine McNamara

#3. We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#4. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free?

Haruki Murakami

#5. thanks to mommy and match-box cars, thanks for dad and to the stars.

Dixie Chicks

#6. Well, that's the great thing about indie film, in general. If it's not subject to the constraints of too much pressure from the studio or marketing, and all of that, you get to actually present fuller characters and you get to have the dark side of the characters. That's usually what gets cut out.

Ty Burrell

#7. I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

Sigourney Weaver

#8. A great day in New York would be to wake up, get a cup of coffee and head up to Central Park for a nice walk. Then I'd go down to the East Village and stroll around. After that, maybe I'd go check out a museum or catch an indie film at the Angelika.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#9. Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God. Blessed indeed are the obedient, for God will never permit them to go astray.

Saint Francis De Sales

#10. This brutal man is my home. His hell is my heaven. I'm his Ivory, and he's my darkest note.

Pam Godwin

#11. Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

Thomas Lennon

#12. A book in the hand is worth a dozen TV shows in the bush.

E. Hank Buchmann

#13. The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.

Storm Constantine

#14. Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Jeff Daniels

#15. Independent film is such a huge deal in the UK. There aren't many big budget studio movies that get greenlit at all. The indie film industy is a great opportunity that I'm trying to seize.

Aml Ameen

#16. I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

Kendrick Lamar

#17. I want to run for eternal glory and track is great, but it's not what life is all about.

Allyson Felix

#18. No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.

Bill Nye

#19. I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.

Ed Oxenbould

#20. I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

Britt Daniel

#21. I don't really listen to the radio anymore, but some of the more contemporary people I like are Stereolab, Spiritualize, Yo La Tengo and Bedhead. There are other things too, like Pavement. They're a great band, with really good lyrics. But generally, I'm not overwhelmed by the state of indie-rock.

Dean Wareham

#22. I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great.

Gary Shteyngart

#23. Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

Simon Mainwaring

#24. When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.

Jarvis Cocker

#25. I do my best to allow myself to really feel it [emotional pain]. Cry. Get all in it. Really experience my experience so that I may move through it. And talk about it. I try not to let anything get brushed over and swept under the rug.

Dash Mihok