“As Americans we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free thinking and engaged audience.” ThinkingGivingValuesVoiceLeaderRolesAudienceInformationIndependentInstitutionsPressesCirclesJournalistEngagedConsumedFree ThinkingVoiceless Author:Lester Holt
“When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.” ThinkingMenLooksTogetherSongAudienceFrontsMusic IsSingingIndependentSexyPseudo Author:Jamie Foxx
“Because audiences all over the world can see an independent film almost anywhere and anytime, these new distribution outlets have opened a door that is revolutionizing the movie-going experience.” WorldFilmAudienceDoorsIndependentDistributionOutletsIndependent Film Author:Gren Wells
“I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantMeanRealFilmAudienceHollywoodIndependentVariousStudiosTrendsReal WorldTruthfulEccentricInterferenceDemographicsIndependent FilmCalculatingPrerogativeHollywood Studios Author:Mike Leigh
“If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.” IfsAbleFilmDifferencesAudienceMagicIndependentCraftsFilmmakerDelicateInterpersonalInterpersonal Relationship Author:Guillermo del Toro
“I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition.” PeopleThinkingWholeFilmChoicesAudienceArmsHarderIndependentCompetitionObviousStudiosVideoCrushDigitalDistributionExplosionsIndependent FilmDistributors Author:Steve Buscemi
“We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences.” GivingMindArtistSupportAudienceShareStageIndependentCommittedMind Blowing Author:Jane Rosenthal
“On an independent film you're lucky if you get one, but ostensibly the job is the same. There's very little difference, apart from the knowledge that there's a captive audience at the end of it - which you can't always guarantee with a movie.” IfsLittlesEndsJobsFilmDifferencesAudienceLuckyIndependentGuaranteesCaptivesIndependent Film Author:Charles Dance
“The chance to tell personal, language-specific, culturally specific stories is really flourishing on TV and I think it's just the nature of movies and international demands that you need to get a much bigger audience. TV is more like independent film was. The forms of adult drama and certain kinds of sophisticated comedy, there's no room for them in the tentpole movie universe.” ThinkingKindFilmUniverseChanceAudienceComedyDramaIndependentSophisticated Author:Matthew Weiner
“Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is, you want it to be seen by an audience. In theory, especially in the independent world, ironically, you do stand a chance of making a bit of money if the film gets distribution.” WorldArtFilmArtistChanceAudienceArt IsIndependent Author:Alex Cox
“I don't think the audience goes and thinks of the movie as a piece of art - there are some independent people who may go and have a higher appreciation for filmmaking. It is a great art form, but I don't think you look at a painting and a movie with the same eye.” PeopleThinkingArtEyeAudiencePaintingIndependentAppreciationFilmmakingGreat Art Author:Antoine Fuqua
“Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.” AudienceIndependent Author:Parker Posey
“We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.” FirstsBelieveMayArtImportantStoriesEyeRememberI BelieveRealizingAudienceMovementEssentialsElementsIllusionIndependentImportant ThingsDancingVisualsDancerConvinceBalletGreat ArtMagicianThrough The EyesChoreographers Author:George Balanchine