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Indie Film Quotes

Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.
- Edward Burns

That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.
- Edward Burns

You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.
- Louis C K

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
- Jeff Daniels

People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.
- Christopher Meloni

All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.
- Sandra Oh

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.
- Anna Paquin

Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
- Parker Posey

I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.
- Chloe Sevigny

Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.
- Kevin Smith

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