Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

I was termed 'choosy' because when an actor decides to go against the wind and takes on only non-formula films, he is not left with much choice.

The reach of big-budget films is bigger, but I have always loved doing films that I believe in.

I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial.

I'd love to do more independent films.

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.

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.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

When I was on Disney, in the back of my head, I wanted to do - not even for anyone else, just for me - I wanted to do something that was independent. And maybe a little darker.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

I admire artists who really take risks and aren't afraid to do smaller movies and obscure, abstract things. It would be really cool if my career neared that.

Maybe I'm more suited to making small independent films.

Lot of people liked me in 'Manorama Six feet Under,' 'Oye Lucky Lucky Oye,' 'Dev D' and 'Shanghai' and the only common thing in all these films is that when we were making them we never thought they would work. The ones that did not work were safe films.

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

Making independent films is liberating. It eliminates self-censorship, which mainstream films are infected with due to commercial priorities.

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

I want to highlight this, that to make meaningful cinema, we really need an enabling environment and freedom to express.