Forest Whitaker Quotes

I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.

I feel that if you want to make films, you have to be willing to make it without a fee. You get a deferment, I guess.

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.

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.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them.

Making an independent film is so different.

The only chance for a guy like me is to make a decent picture for a reasonable budget. If it brings in a profit for investors, maybe I'll have the opportunity to make something else.

Even with a big budget, you can make a niche film.

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

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

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

Any asshole can make a good movie for $100 million. I think it's way harder to make a movie with no money, and to start with no contacts and work your way up to international productions.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

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

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.