Jennifer Aniston Quotes

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

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

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.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

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.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

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.

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.

I always say that AMC hires filmmakers, and they let them be filmmakers.

I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.

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

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

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.

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

Not everyone is fortunate enough to earn their living playing. But what draws people to art and artists is a desire to enjoy the propinquity of play. For it is the very freedom of the imagination. And what else were we born to do, but imagine freely?