Joey Soloway Quotes

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

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

My first film festival and my first film that I've ever been in, 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' that was at Sundance.

Ironically, it's easier to raise the money to make the film than it is to have the film find wide distribution.

We make a lot of movies that I don't think merit a wide release. We have this label called Tilt, and we have the movies come out on that, and that's fine. But it shocks me when, having done this a few times, when I really believe a movie should get a wide release, and I struggle to get it released. That does surprise me.

I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.

If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'

Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.

A lot of movies are made, but because they come to film festivals and your movie doesn't get bought by a studio or a distributor, your movie doesn't get seen.

I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed.

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.

I've directed independent film.

I want to do more films.

All in all, I'd like to venture into film. Films are my staple diet, so I would love to be part of a feature film, independent film... it all just depends on the story and the people behind it, really.

I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.