#independent film

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. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#been #ever #except #experimental #films

I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#film #had #hair #i #independent

A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

#ago #also #did #few #film

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#exist #film #independent #independent film #only

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#films #fun #get #hollywood #independent

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#beginning #being #commercial #commercial films #deciding

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream. ↗

— William Hurt

#films #get #i #i do #independent

It's so hard to raise money for independent films and the fact of the matter is that the bigger my star or whatever is, as a result of doing bigger pictures, the easier it is for me to get money for my own projects. ↗

— Edward Burns

#doing #easier #fact #films #get

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#allowed #breathe #films #i #i love

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#come #communication #films #great #i