Macaulay Culkin Quotes

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

In the '90s, I kind of put aside all those things I loved in the '80s and I got really into watching foreign films and art films and stuff like that, and sort of soaking those up.

When I was young, I went with my mum to see some really random independent films, which really spoke to me: 'My Beautiful Laundrette,' 'Secrets and Lies'... It wasn't all arthouse, though!

The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them... I'm in them! But I don't go and spend my money on them.

I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.

My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!

If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.

I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

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

I don't like these commercial films I do. I'd far prefer to do more artistic films, more cult films.

Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy.

But you can still find good films if you read your local film critics and are willing to drive a bit. You have to be a proactive film viewer to have the most provocative cinema life.

I watch mostly independent films.

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

In future also, we would like to back films that can be considered slightly risky since they don't have song and dance.

I just make films that attract me.

Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything - they aren't slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as long as the scripts are funny.

I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.

Everyone wants to do only those films which they find interesting. That is the way the industry works.