Shane Carruth Quotes

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.

Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.

If I made a film today, it would certainly be on digital.

The film industry is moving towards digital technology.

I'm actually very critical of digital cinema.

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.

If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.

I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.

We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online.

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here.

'Mafiosa' was written by Veronica Russo. It's her first time making a film, and I'm really proud of her because this woman has a full-time job, and she decided one day, 'You know, I want to write a film, and I want to make it.'

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

I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed.

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.