Jody Hill Quotes

I watch mostly independent films.

I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.

When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was a very, very exciting period!

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

Suddenly, all the giant Hollywood franchises are being driven by alternative filmmakers.

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

You can't geek out with a lot of people about Linda Manz.

My heroes were people like Jim Jarmusch. Scorsese was my god. Spike Lee was exciting, doing exactly what we thought we were going to do: personal movies based in, and about, New York. My heroes were all participating in an economic model that was collapsing as I was finishing film school.

Jacques Audiard has always been an outlier in a French film industry that is starkly bifurcated between high and low.

These new-age directors like Karthik Subbaraj are bringing about a change that I want to be a part of.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.

My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!

In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn't a big, huge tentpole movie, or if it wasn't on the radio, I hadn't experienced it.

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

In terms of doing another franchise after 'Transformers,' I don't know if that would be best for me. I'm really happy to inhabit the world of independent film.

Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.

In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of.