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“The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.”

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Author:Wim Wenders

“There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.”

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Author:Dick Wolf

“I'd like to do an independent film.”

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Author:David Boreanaz

“The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.”

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Author:Anurag Kashyap

“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.”

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Author:Steve Buscemi

“I came out of independent film, that's my roots.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

“I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.”

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Author:Gerard Butler

“You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts.”

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Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the film-makers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.”

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Author:John Hurt

“The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.”

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Author:Mia Wasikowska

“In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique”

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Author:Sherilyn Fenn

“People say to me, 'You seem to have made this conscious decision to do independent films'. In reality, I haven't. After each movie, I always think, 'how different can I possibly be? Is this going to challenge me, is this going to inspire me, and is this going to make me love my job more than I already do?'”

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Author:Kate Winslet

“To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.”

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Author:Michael Rapaport

“And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.”

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Author:Terrence Howard

“Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.”

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“I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.”

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Author:Linda Fiorentino

“Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.”

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Author:Patrick Warburton

“Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.”

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Author:Joey Lauren Adams

“I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere.”

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Author:William Mapother

“I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.”

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Author:Loretta Devine

“And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.”

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Author:Jenna Elfman

“I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.”

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Author:Jenifer Lewis

“The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.”

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Author:James Woods

“So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.”

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Author:Maria Menounos

“I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.”

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Author:Frank Rich

“I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.”

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Author:Leonard Maltin

“A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.”

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Author:Nick Mancuso

“I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible.”

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Author:Sarah Polley

“I've directed independent film.”

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Author:Vin Diesel

“I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.”

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Author:John Leguizamo

“A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.”

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Author:Aubrey Plaza

“I'd love to do more independent films.”

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Author:Holliday Grainger

“I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.”

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Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.”

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Author:Mark Rydell

“Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.”

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Author:Austin Peck

“[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delivery of RESERVOIR DOGS or FARGO and so they imitate those movies. They want PULP FICTION, but they get it all wrong! They get the detachment, but that's it. And then it's all about style, and in the end what do you learn about the characters? Nothing. You learn you wasted two hours.”

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Author:Stanley Tucci

“Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'”

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Author:Daniel Tosh

“I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.”

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Author:Vera Farmiga

“You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.”

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Author:Vera Farmiga

“People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.”

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Author:Gena Rowlands

“Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.”

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Author:Anthony Anderson

“I've love to do more movies. Just because I'm interested in the medium very much. I've done a lot of theatre at this point, and I've done a lot of TV. I've done a few independent films, but a lot of them have not seen the light of day. It'd be really nice to be in a film that gets out there.”

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Author:Morena Baccarin

“It's so hard to raise money for independent films and the fact of the matter is that the bigger my star or whatever is, as a result of doing bigger pictures, the easier it is for me to get money for my own projects.”

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Author:Edward Burns

“Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.”

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Author:Edward Burns

“The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic.”

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Author:Lynn Collins

“I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.”

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Author:Neve Campbell

“The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.”

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Author:Patricia Clarkson

“I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row.”

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Author:Erica Durance

“In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.”

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Author:Griffin Dunne

“As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.”

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Author:Karen Allen

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