Be Independent Quotes

With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.

In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.

I consider myself to be a very strong, independent woman.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

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.

I did very much enjoy being part of an independent film. It was just the energy.

The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.

The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic.

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

I come from a background of independent films.

I associate creativity with independent music.

Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.

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.

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.

When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security

The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.

Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.

Leave home? It's quite a scary thought. I'm not the most independent person and that's the result. When you're always surrounded by people it becomes quite normal.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

I'm such an independent person, I always want to do everything myself.

It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers and directors who truly have their own vision, and that's hard.

I've always been attracted to independent women, but the idea that someone could be independent and still kind of put herself second at times was pretty interesting.

I really wanted to work and become independent.

I've directed independent film.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

All of my friends are independent in thought, that's important.

If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.

Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

There's going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration's relationship to Russia.

It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.

He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was just about 'The Independent.' And that was wrong.

If we think of the field as being removed, there is no 'space' which remains, since space does not have an independent existence.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.

Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.

I think it is clear that what we ought to do has to be independent of our decisions about what to do, and independent of any procedures we might use in making such decisions.

That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.

TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.

It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very independent, and I think that came in very handy.

I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district.

Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.