“I love the new technology in terms of giving access to doing more independent work. When I first started out, any film had to rent from Panavision and the expenses were humongous. Now, given the advances in technology, you can put out extraordinary quality filmmaking at nothing like the price it used to be.” GivingFirstsFilmUsedGivenTermQualityTechnologyIndependentExtraordinaryAccessUsed To BeExpensesFilmmakingNew Technology Author:Kathleen Turner
“Nobody really truly supporting independent filmmakers anymore. It's just dire. There's a lot of bad filmmaking, and there's a lot of people worshipping some terrible filmmakers. It's a waste of all of our time, if you don't feel anything. We are an age of YouTube kids. We don't care so much anymore. It's all about marketing.” PeopleIfsFeelsCareKidsAgeTerribleWasteIndependentMarketingDon't CareFilmmakerOur TimeFilmmakingYoutube Author:Daniel Gillies
“You make a film for a million dollars and then it costs $10 million to sell it. That's the problem at the moment with independent filmmaking: You can make it cheap and then there's no money to market it.” MomentsProblemFilmMillionsCostIndependentSellsDollarsFilmmakingMillion DollarsNo MoneyIndependent Filmmaking Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between independent filmmaking and studio filmmaking because all the studios have these little independent satellites. It's interesting.” LittlesSometimesHardDifferencesInterestingIndependentStudiosFilmmakingSatellitesIndependent Filmmaking Author:Kerry Washington
“I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.” ActorsIndependentAgreeMovieFilmmakingIndependent Filmmaking Author:Gena Rowlands
“There is a straight-forward definition for 'Independent Filmmaking'. The term references a group of films that are financed by money that comes from outside the studio system. In a literal sense that is what it means.” MeanFilmTermGroupsIndependentDefinitionsStudiosFilmmakingLiteralIndependent Filmmaking Author:Andrew Neel
“When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was reflecting on this when I came home. Realizing that ever since I started filmmaking, people have being saying that. But somehow it keeps going. Filmmakers keep going. We need stories to make sense of the world and some people like me are driven to tell them. I have faith this will always be possible.” PeopleWorldNeedsStoriesHomeBigsFilmRealizingTroubleHeardNew YorkIndustryIndependentDrivenLike MeMake SenseFilmmakerKeep GoingHave FaithFilmmakingReflectingIndependent FilmFilm Industry Author:Andrea Arnold
“There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this country against all the odds.” CountryStuffWonderfulTraditionIndependentFilmmakingOddsIndependent Filmmaking Author:Mike Leigh
“Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.” IndependentForgottenFilmmakingIndependent Filmmaking Author:Mike Leigh
“Having been an actor, I always want to leave room for the actors to find their comfort zone, so I don't like to be too rigid in how I plan my shots. It's different if you have weeks to rehearse and you can rehearse on your sets or in your locations and you can plan that out with your actors, but in modern independent filmmaking, you don't really have that time. You have to have a certain level of improvisation.” IfsWantDifferentCertainActorsLevelsRoomsPlansWeekModernComfortShotsIndependentZoneFilmmakingLocationComfort ZoneImprovisationIndependent Filmmaking Author:Eric Balfour
“The excitement about independent filmmaking is that they're a little more open to taking chances. The studios are a little more careful, as far as who they choose for their film and what they're known for and staying in the genre because they know what works.” KnowsLittlesFilmChanceKnownIndependentCarefulStudiosGenreExcitementStayingFilmmakingTake A ChanceIndependent Filmmaking Author:Malin Akerman
“You can't print everything and that's not good for filmmaking, because you wanna have as many options as possible and print as much as you can, but if you're going to shoot a film - an independent movie on film, the only way to really do it is to print your selects.” IfsWayFilmIndependentPrintFilmmaking Author:Logan Lerman
“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
“I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.” FeelsTodayActorsCareersIndependentMovieFilmmakingIndependent Filmmaking Author:Charlize Theron