Farhan Akhtar Quotes

It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am.

I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.

Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.

We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.

If you're making a smaller movie, you're almost obligated to do something unexpected and surprising.

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

That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

We need less perfect but more free films.

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.

I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!

The cool thing about those small-budget movies is that there's a tremendous amount of freedom the filmmakers have since there's less money at stake.

I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.