Judy Greer Quotes

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.

I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.

I want to shoot some indies, some independent features that give me some space to play a little bit.

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

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.

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

Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.

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

I'd love to do more independent films.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.

I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.

It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

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.

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.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

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

In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.