Be Independent Quotes

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.

My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.

I love the art house, and when I say the art house, I don't just mean little, independent movies but movies that really aim to be about something and say something and I love those movies.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.

For women especially, its important to be financially independent.

Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?

The Internet is the great highway of the modern communication, free and independent.

I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.

I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

We were taught to be free-thinking, independent, to look at your goals. And that old saying, you could never go home was never true in my community. We always felt like we could go home.

I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.

I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.

Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.

I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny postage stamps.

When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I can't play the princess. I'm not a pretty princess! I'm a tomboy.

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

I went from being married to living on my own in L.A., to having a new boyfriend and just being totally self-sufficient and super independent. It's awesome. I love it!

If you're an independent, you don't get on TV. And in the rare instances that you do get on, you get a fraction of what that very same movie would get if it came in through Fox or Viacom.

The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.

In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way

I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

I don't really see a difference in independent and major labels. To me, it's pretty much the same. There used to be a difference between indies and major labels, but I don't think there is anymore.

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.

A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.