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When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

When you're making an independent film and you care about it so much you do all the prep work beforehand.

I do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

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.

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

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.

I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career.

I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.

Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.

I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

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

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

I love the financing. It's fun to do studio movies, too. I think you should do both. You don't want to be this, "He's an independent film guy." It sounds like, "He makes his own dresses."

The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!

The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I'm certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.

Because audiences all over the world can see an independent film almost anywhere and anytime, these new distribution outlets have opened a door that is revolutionizing the movie-going experience.

I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.

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.

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.

I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.

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.

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.

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.

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

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.

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

I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

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

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

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

I watch mostly independent films.

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

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.

Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women.

For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.

I'd like to do an independent film.

I personally like to do independent films.

It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.

I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.