Steve Buscemi Quotes

I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film.

I personally like to do independent films.

I'd love to do more independent films.

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

I don't think of the 'indie film world' as this cohesive kind of world anyhow. It's so disparate: all these different filmmakers seeking financing from many different sources to make different kinds of movies. It's hard to pinpoint a trend, really.

I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career.

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

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

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

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.

I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

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

I guess, in a sense, 'Audition' was a film that gave me an opportunity that I hadn't had up until that point. So that's definitely one that is important to me. Then there's 'Visitor Q' that kind of taught me that there are some kinds of films that can only be made as low-budget films that really wouldn't work as anything else.

It's not that I don't want to do different films. The non-mainstream stuff that I did started to get successful... But for an industry which runs essentially on money, they do put you in a box.

I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.

I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. 'One for you, one for me,' is what they say.

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

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.