Anne Heche Quotes

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

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

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

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

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.

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

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.

With an independent film, you have a little more freedom, and you also have less money, so you're sort of struggling to get it done, to get something that works. With a big studio, everything is there for you, and it's easier.

I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.

It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.

At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

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.

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

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

The kind of films I want to make are struggling to get made. And if they are getting made, they're getting made on shoestring budgets with not enough time.

At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie.

The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I I have on a big budget film as well, but they're just much bigger.

I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.

I don't choose to make low-budget films. But that is the reality of surviving in the Japanese film industry. However, the trade off is, since we're working on small budgets, we have freedom. You can't buy this freedom with money. With this freedom, I think there are an infinite number of possibilities.

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

I do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.

I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the film-makers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.