Quotes About Indie Films

#1. I'm a big fan of character actors like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman. My goal is to continue playing character roles in indie films and move into playing character leads.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

#2. The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.

David Tennant

#3. I started in the theater world in New York City - and indie films - and I love the feeling of your head coming together and trying to tell a simple story, a small story, and just getting that vibe of storytelling without all the craziness of big budget.

Andre Royo

#4. I've done a lot of very low-budget indie films, so it was just really exciting and fun to be doing a film where there's a lot more time and these huge, vast sets. I was like a kid in a playground. It was amazing!

Felicity Jones

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.

Charlie McDermott

#8. You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

Anna Paquin

#9. I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

#10. I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. 'One for you, one for me,' is what they say.

Rhys Wakefield

#11. I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.

Chloe Sevigny

#12. To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe ... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.

Emily Mortimer

#13. All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.

Sandra Oh

#14. 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

#15. Give yourself permission to stop existing and start growing. We all need more than work for self-actualization. Remember that interests and hobbies aren't frivolous; they're necessary for fulfillment and health.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#16. What's successful is when you are good at what you aim to do. And I don't think that Nas has aimed to do anything that he hasn't done. So he is a good businessman.

Steve Stoute

#17. I could ... see in Emerson ... that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

Herman Melville

#18. (28) And it is He who sends down rain after [men] have lost all hope, and unfolds His grace [thereby]:4047 for He alone is [their] Protector, the One to whom all praise is due.

Anonymous

#19. Maybe I could do some indie film and get my kit off. I'd never say never.

Konnie Huq

#20. All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

Ray Kurzweil

#21. Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. That would be like stepping in front of a moving train and saying, 'Hey, honey, come stand next to me.'"
I hopped off the wall and stood next to him. "Anytime."
He just looked at me.
"I've never killed a train before. It might be fun to try.

Ilona Andrews

#23. I'm excited that 'The Good Guy' is getting distribution because indie movies they're not - people ran out of money and they're not making these movies anymore. It's all superhero movies or real obvious tent pole studio films.

Bryan Greenberg

#24. I am very disciplined with my skin - I tone and I moisturize my skin twice a day. I also exfoliate, and I try to get a facial, like, once every two months.

Grace Gealey

#25. If you follow your passion, it will lead you to fulfillment.

Donald L. Hicks

#26. 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

#27. Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it ... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.

Jason Reitman

#28. The three roles that I have always admired are Valjean, Phantom and Jesus and I've enjoyed them all so much.

Hugh Panaro

#29. I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here.

Steve Spurrier

#30. Do what others refuse to do.

Grant Cardone

#31. Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. All right. You need to vent, so I'll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because Rydstorm was about to plunder Sabine with his thick, hard -

Gena Showalter

#32. We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

Gabrielle Union