Rider Strong Quotes

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

I want to work on projects that I feel passionate about and do things that are fun and challenging. I would love to do a live musical. I'm not interested in doing the same thing over and over or the fame and exposure that comes with it. When people keep doing that, they just end up doing the same dumb stuff again and again.

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

I believe in making movies very inexpensively; I think that way too much money is spent on making movies. Enough movies are being made, but not enough experimental ones.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

I'm very attracted to directors who want to experiment. The thing that attracts me the most are people who are trying find a language that is correct for their film, for that specific film.

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.

Hollywood is probably the most active centre of film-making in the world, but it's also a very difficult place in which to find your voice... It was also a far more civilised industry in Ireland.

Most people who've had a big hit movie like 'Paranormal Activity,' the next thing they say is, 'I want to make a $100 million movie.' I have no interest in making more expensive movies.

If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.

The web offers a creative climate that filmmakers have been craving for.

I want to make every film different from my previous one.

Let film-makers take a call about what films they want to do.

I'd love to just continue making original films from scratch, but it doesn't mean I won't try my hand at something else in the meantime.