Kyra Sedgwick Quotes

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

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.

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

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

I personally like to do independent films.

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

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

I love my arthouse films, and I love taking a chance.

That's what I want to continue to do: really odd films, with interesting filmmakers.

I don't understand indie films. So, I won't do such films.

I am lucky that I am surviving in the industry despite the kind of films I have made, which are absolutely unconventional.

I'd love to do more independent films.

When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.

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

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.

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

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.

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

Going forward, I would love to work with directors like Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon; people like that who are doing big films but do have really independent voices. That's kind of what I want to focus on, is always working with people with at least an independent point of view, even if it's not an independent film.

The business has changed, and some people can keep talking about theatrical in these wondrous terms - it will survive, but it becomes narrower what you can make. So the films I'm most interested in, studios - or even the independents - aren't making them. I'm mostly interested in people.

I really love independent films. There's something so determined about the people who work on them.

I'll put it this way: with the kind of films that I do - creatively driven, with interesting directors and writers - I don't feel the need to work with the super established, top-tier directors that are out there.

The thing I love the most about low budget films is the creative freedom.