#independent

In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#amy #aware #budget #certain #community

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#films #freedom #get #i #i think

And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#did #ended #expecting #film #independent

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#emerge #independent #purpose #unconscious

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#bob #carl #confirm #former #go

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#best way #independent #learning #sovereign #sovereign state

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#courage #courage-to-be-oneself #independent-thought #lightning #lightning-rod

Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments. ↗

— Alan Young

#appointments #being #bench #concerned #court

The dichotomy is delicious. Inside the fantasy genre, I try to present women who need to solve real problems like having no voice in community, or no right to work; no access to capital to start a business. No reinforcement for talent. ↗

— Stella Atrium

#power-structures #self-reliant #womens-rights #womens-strength #business

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#become #change #growing-up #independent #into-the-wild