Brad Pitt Quotes

Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

With directing, you always have three or four things constantly on the go. It's a tough industry and a tough time, particularly if you're doing things a little outside the box or independent features.

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.

I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.

There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

I truly believe that cinema is a collaborative effort, and as long as I get to tell, and be part of, interesting stories and work with genuine people, I don't see any project as a 'risk.'

I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little camera, wrote a script and dragged my brother, Tony, out of bed to help me (which he did not like), so that we could shoot a film every day for six weeks. It was made for £65 and it was called Boy On A Bicycle.

The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.

It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up -- so it's no longer a screw up.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

I'd love to do more independent films.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

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 feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

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.

Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.

Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

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.

Collider is a company that I formed with a movie producer, Alisa Tager, and we just wanted to create a place where writers could come and develop their ideas without a regard to limitations of form.

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.