Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

The excitement about independent filmmaking is that they're a little more open to taking chances. The studios are a little more careful, as far as who they choose for their film and what they're known for and staying in the genre because they know what works.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

It's been TV and a lot of independent films. I'm so happy and blessed to have all these opportunities. But I'm also working on somebody else's project.

When you're on a lower-budget film, with one guy who maybe has a camera strapped to him, you're a much bigger part of that pie. You can be a sliver in a big Hollywood movie, but you can be a quarter of that indie movie pie. And I feel like, first of all, there is a real freedom that you feel from that, because it's like, you know what, if this is terrible, nobody's gonna ever see it, so I can be more brave.

Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be one of five people. Hollywood makes many bad movies too, which I'm not interested in being a part of. But there are only a few good independent movies a year, and many, many bad ones. I want to be in good movies, and I want people to see them.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.

I've pretty much grown up on set, and my favorite part about it is being able to actually see how movies are made. I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school. It kind of feels like it's been a long time coming.It's a relief to actually be in, because the college process is so hyped-up.

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

If I have things my way, over the next few years, I'm going to be doing a lot more directing and a lot less acting. That will be fun for a while.

As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.

I think people like Lena Dunham really opened up the door to what was possible, and they've inspired young women to go into filmmaking and writing and directing and acting in a way that maybe they didn't before, because now there is a path and there are jobs.

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

It's not often I get to do a film that turns out good. Plus, there just aren't that many great directors out there. There are a thousand different decisions that need to be made with each script and it's the good directors that can make those decisions. It's a long and complicated process in regards to what looks good on paper. Working on a bad film can be fun too. It can be a good exercise that gets you writing.

Sometimes there are people who don't know how to make action movies - and that situation isn't a good one.

I've been lucky to have things come to me that creatively fulfill me, and those are usually the independent films just because you have a little bit more freedom.