Be Independent Quotes

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

I've learned that you only become as creative as you possibly can by staying independent.

Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.

The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.

A free and independent Britain is a blessing to the world.

If I'm the nominee, I will pledge I will not run as an independent. I want to win as the Republican. I want to run as the Republican nominee.

The Democratic Party would like to see an open independent bipartisan investigation [about hacking].

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

I'm actually 100% independent. I'm not a Universal artist. I'm signed to myself.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the "underground scene". It's what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses.

I'm really interested in making movies that people see: I've made a lot of independent films and it's really depressing when no one sees them.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.

That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

You're financially independent if you have $15,000 coming in and $14,900 going out.

I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.

There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous...very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.

The biggest challenge is how you get money for independent films, in these ever-changing times when most people don't really want to invest in that anymore.

'TableTop' is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn't have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

It's better to be the largest independent band from Brazil instead of be the smallest mainstream band.

I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.

Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love!

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.

An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies.

I just thought, given the practicalities of financing an independent movie, you have to have some names. That's just the way it works. You have to have a name that can get you foreign pre-sales.

My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none.

Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.

I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.