Mara Wilson Quotes

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.

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.

I consider all my films experiments.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.

I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

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

I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.

I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to.

With independent films, you again get to work with new directors and experiment too.

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.

When you watch a film like 'Warning,' you would realize that it can't be made with stars.

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

You definitely want to do the little films. They're always going to be harder, but you don't do them to make money. You do them so you can see what you can make with the research that you have.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

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

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.