“I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.” ThinkingYearsChallengesHugeRight NowSceneIndependentStudiosCorporate Author:Bob Odenkirk
“For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.” WayWantFilmSafeDegreesIndependentManagementCorporateMentalityIndependent FilmAmerican Film Author:Anthony LaPaglia
“The worst part is that if you become part of a major - all these independent labels become farm teams for your corporate parent. Basically, you do all the work for years, blowing up an artist - you discover them, blow them up, you build their fan base. And then that artist is like, "Okay, now I'm here. Now I want more. I want to be bigger." And you're either going to be able to accommodate them, you're going to be able to figure out how to take that step with them, or you're going to lose them.” IfsWantYearsAbleArtistParentLosesStepsTeamFansWorstFiguresMajorsOkayBiggerIndependentBlowLabelsCorporateFarmsAccommodateBlowing Up Author:El-P
“Because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a craptastic corporate media, WE DON'T HAVE NEWS! We don't have an informed populous and we don't have a democracy... Everyone in the world knows that America, (in its current state, because of right-wingers) that the right wing arm of this country (that speaks for this country unfortunately) has no credibility when it comes to human rights or independent media.” KnowsWorldHumansCountryStatesAmericaSpeakDemocracyRightsMediaArmsNewsIndependentWingsHuman RightsCurrentsDoctrineCorporateFairnessCredibilityRight WingConsolidationIndependent Media Author:Janeane Garofalo
“If we can sell out a venue that's just as big as this in Omaha, if we can sell out DePaul in Chicago tomorrow, which looks like it's going to happen for 1100 or 1200 people, then obviously everyone will know that we can affect between 700 to 1000 people at a time in damn near every city in America, then I think that's a good start. It also tells people, and gives them an example, how independent hip-hop is able to do this without gigantic corporate support.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingLooksBigsHappensAbleAmericaCitiesSupportExampleTomorrowIndependentSellsHip HopHipsCorporateDamnHopsChicagoVenuesOmaha Author:Immortal Technique
“I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.” ThinkingMeanUsedHollywoodIndependentHonestlyCorporateThese DaysGimmicks Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.” LastsIndependentRadioCorporateStationsCablesSatellitesOasisPublic RadioIndependent Music Author:Nellie McKay
“The stronger the culture, the less corporate process a company needs. When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing. People can be independent and autonomous. They can be entrepreneurial.” PeopleNeedsCultureStrongProcessCompanyStrongerIndependentCorporateRight ThingEntrepreneurialAutonomous Author:Brian Chesky
“In other words, "speaking truth" as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and have real enduring change, it takes both a movement on the ground and an independent political party that is itself the defiance of that two-party corporate big-money control of politics.” WayMayTwoRealBigsMovingPoliticalSocialPartyMovementIndependentEndureCorporateLocksPolitical PartiesDefianceSocial Movements Author:Jill Stein
“The answer is for all of us to create our own systems, our own ideas, because vibrant independent ideas will trump this corporate, plastic Borg, this brainwashing they're trying to push. I mean, banning 'father' and 'mother,' banning the word 'husband' and 'wife,' I mean that's so cultic that if I'd of been told ten years ago they were gonna ban words like that, I wouldn't have believed it. They do it with straight faces. I mean, has the left, and of course the controlled-right as well, have they gone collectively insane on a control-freak bent? Or, is there a strategy?” IfsTryingYearsWellsMeanIdeasFacesMotherCoursesFatherLeftAnswersGoneWifeTrumpTenHusbandYears AgoIndependentStrategyInsaneCorporateControlledFreakPlasticBentBansHusband And WifeBrainwashingControl FreakStraight FaceBorg Author:Alex Jones
“I have a very clear perception what the Internet is in my mind. I'm free. I'm not defined by what they say is the Internet is. Meaning Goldman Sachs, meaning who they invest in for the latest start-up, meaning the latest Buzzfeed, or Salon, or Gawker. Well, Gawker's more independent. But, there's a lot of corporate makeover of the Internet that I have not adapted to, simply put. I'm friends with some of them. When I go to New York I make the 6th Avenue rounds, but I am not a part of that system.” MindWellsClearNew YorkInternetPerceptionIndependentRoundsDefinedCorporateAvenuesAdaptedSalonsMakeoversGoldman Sachs Author:Matt Drudge
“Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.” ThinkingMindMeanEndsFilmPayRight NowPressureIndependentEntertainmentCorporateFilmmakerConfusedExcessMarketplaceIndependent FilmMeans To An End Author:Robert Redford
“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the “Nation,” it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry.” PeopleThinkingFirstsArtUseGovernmentFilmNationsBitsBrainWorryMediaJudgmentMusicianIndependentPainterCorporateMakersFlagsShrinksWrapsYokeShroudsIndependent Thinking Author:Arundhati Roy
“Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.” SoundSilenceBreakMediaIndependentRefuseCorporateBarriersSilence IsIndependent Media Author:Amy Goodman
“Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before” TodayDemocracyMediaHealthyBasesIndependentCorporateCrucialCitizenshipCitizenryInformed CitizenryInformed Citizens Author:Dahr Jamail