“Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain.” PeopleGuyThreeFourIntelligentIndependentPassionateChainsExpertsEmployeeFood ChainMba Author:Yvon Chouinard
“I'm independent. If a guy is too clingy or needy, I actually get afraid of hurting him - and I can't deal with that.” IfsI CanGuyHurtDealsIndependentNeedyClingyHurting Him Author:Ashley Greene
“I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so proud of that little independent film. I play this young English geologist, and he's such a simple, loving kind of guy. Doesn't talk too much. He's just a quiet guy, and he gets the girl.” KindLittlesPlayStoriesAgeFilmYoungGuyGirlSimpleToo MuchProudQuietIndependentGasComing Of AgeIndependent FilmGeologist Author:Robert Knepper
“I love the financing. It's fun to do studio movies, too. I think you should do both. You don't want to be this, "He's an independent film guy." It sounds like, "He makes his own dresses."” ThinkingWantShouldFilmGuyFunSoundIndependentDressesStudiosIndependent FilmFinancing Author:Bill Murray
“The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany."” WayWantGivingGuyBrainMillionsPiecesGeniusIndependentSellsDollarsFranceGermanyDistributionMillion DollarsFinancing Author:Bill Murray
“An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.” WantGuyPoliticsPoliticianIndependent Author:Adlai Stevenson I
“Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.” PeopleWantFilmGuySoundGroupsSpecialIndependentTablesDrivingSettingProducersSettingsLunchVansPitchingLove MakingIndependent FilmSmall Groups Author:Olivia Thirlby
“There's just this stage in a guy's life where they need to be free and have fun and just be independent and enjoy their life.” NeedsGuyFunEnjoyStageIndependentHaving Fun Author:Nicola Peltz
“What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He wasn't interested in women. I liked that. He had kind of an intellectual quest, but not a sexual quest. That was the challenge of Mulder. Here was a guy that got almost sexually excited about aliens. And I wanted to be able to do that!” PeopleKindAbleWantedGuyChallengesQualityIntellectualIndependentExcitedCaringAliensQuestsSexuallyNot Caring Author:David Duchovny
“I've seen people who don't have deals get features from people that labels can't even get features from, because you gotta show face and be in-tune with these guys who still have that independent mind set as far how you hustle yourself. Because they only really care at the end of the day about the dollas.” PeopleMindStillsEndsShowsCareFacesGuyDealsIndependentLabelsFeaturesThe End Of The DayTunesHustleMind Set Author:Kid Ink
“Being in the moment with these guys was just a profound experience every day, and when we shoot a movie it's actually a very short process, especially an independent movie like this. It was only thirty five days of shooting.” MomentsGuyProcessFiveIndependentProfoundShootingThirty Author:Oren Moverman
“I had been with a guy for seven years and I was done with that. I wanted to reinvent my whole life and change my hair - I'd had brown, straight extensions forever - and I just wanted to get rid of that, to shed skin, and really just be independent.” YearsDoneWholeWantedGuyForeverHairSkinsIndependentSevenWhole LifeBrownShedExtensionsSeven YearsLife And Change Author:Jillian Hervey
“My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because he had a black - guy to lunch. So that took a fair amount of courage at the time.” GuyFatherBlackAmountFairsIndependentLunchArrestedNashvilleBlack Guys Author:Nat Hentoff
“Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's getting better - it's not only for blacks, but for people that are of all different skin colors. It is very important that black independent films get seen. We need to start getting used to black people. They exist. And they've been around for a long time. It's amazing that people still feel, "Oh my gosh, it's a black guy."” PeopleLongImportantDifferentFilmGuyBlackSkinsIndependentGet BetterBlack PeopleRepresentationOh My Gosh Author:John Boyega
“I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.” ThinkingFilmGuyInfluenceHugeOriginalsIndependentVansIndependent Film Author:Gus Van Sant
“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.” FilmGuyOpportunityInterestingMistakeCareersDirectorsIndependentMagazinesLos AngelesArticlesIndependent FilmIndependent WomenOpportunities To Learn Author:Dick Wolf
“I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?” WayFeelsLooksMeanLittlesWholeLife IsGuyStrongFunStuffPressureIndependentWhole LifeSunriseWomanhoodIconsLoving SomeoneBeing LovedRevolvingSunrise And SunsetBefore SunsetBefore Sunrise Author:Julie Delpy
“Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she is strident. If a man is strong, he's a good guy.” IfsMenGuyStrongIndependentInternationalReputationGood Guy Author:Margaret Thatcher