Kylie Minogue Quotes

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

In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.

I want to shoot some indies, some independent features that give me some space to play a little bit.

It's a really unique situation where you just - you make independent films or you make big blockbuster movies, but it's very rare when all of those ingredients come together, and you can really tell a story that you care about with a character you absolutely love with the people you love making movies with.

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

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

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.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

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

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie.

When I'm making a big movie, I miss and appreciate all the subtleties that come with making a smaller film that is more intimate, more personal.

When I did 'Memento,' independent film was where all the really good stuff was.

I guess, in a sense, 'Audition' was a film that gave me an opportunity that I hadn't had up until that point. So that's definitely one that is important to me. Then there's 'Visitor Q' that kind of taught me that there are some kinds of films that can only be made as low-budget films that really wouldn't work as anything else.

The only chance for a guy like me is to make a decent picture for a reasonable budget. If it brings in a profit for investors, maybe I'll have the opportunity to make something else.

I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.

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.

It's one of the things I love about making films: the places I've got to travel that I would never have gone to before.

You do a film and you have hopes for it, and you read it, and you see it one way in your head, and you shoot it, and it'll always change from what you started out. Sometimes it turns out better, sometimes it turns out; I don't know, but as movies go I've never experienced seeing and likening what I've read, and I liked what I read.

On an independent film you're lucky if you get one, but ostensibly the job is the same. There's very little difference, apart from the knowledge that there's a captive audience at the end of it - which you can't always guarantee with a movie.

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

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.

There's something different about an indie film than a TV show that has a huge infrastructure that's in place already for you - at least financially and in terms of distribution. Whereas an indie film is just a total dare.