Julianne Nicholson Quotes

I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

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.

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

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

I'm looking for little movies that are good instead of picking scripts in pursuit of superstardom.

I think I'm wealthy. I make a good living for what I do. Well, it depends. If I'm doing an independent film I'm making no money - probably losing money. But if I'm doing a studio film, I'll make a decent wage. I can live for a year without working.

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.

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.

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

A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.

If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.

In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much.

I don't want to do every independent film offered to me.

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

I love TV and film and will happily work there if it's good. But I want the ability to choose between things, to have options.

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

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.

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

People say to me, 'You seem to have made this conscious decision to do independent films'. In reality, I haven't. After each movie, I always think, 'how different can I possibly be? Is this going to challenge me, is this going to inspire me, and is this going to make me love my job more than I already do?'

It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

It's a really unique situation where you just - you make independent films or you make big blockbuster movies, but it's very rare when all of those ingredients come together, and you can really tell a story that you care about with a character you absolutely love with the people you love making movies with.

The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable. It's never been about the blockbusters and making a huge tonne of money. It's always been about wanting to do projects about the things that I think are important to be out there.

Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.