Zoe Saldana Quotes

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

I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.

The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success.

I pour my blood, sweat, and tears into a movie. What I always look for is a message and a social consciousness: a relevance to what's happening in our world.

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.

Generally, I feel I'm cast aside because of the kind of movies that I make.

You have to understand that your music isn't for everybody; your job isn't to please everybody.

Art is not journalism. In art, you don't make it to convey a message.

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

I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.

Making independent films is liberating. It eliminates self-censorship, which mainstream films are infected with due to commercial priorities.

I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.

The director of 500 Days of Summer is doing the Spider-Man movie. That's not necessarily the movies I want to make, but it's all about the story, and if you connect to the story, and you feel you can tell that story better than anyone else, then great. Jon Favreau killed Iron Man, I loved it.

I'm curious and you know, I really think cinema is strong medium that allows you to go to so many different mental countries, not just geographical countries. As far as it allows me to express something of my own truth, it's fine for me. I can go to the moon.

There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this country against all the odds.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

People would say, "Well yeah, if I wrote action films, if I wrote the trash that you write, I could make millions too. But I want to write my real movie about these Guatemalan immigrants, and how they hid under a truck for 300 miles." And that's fine. I'd love to make that film too, but to dismiss everything I did just because it's action seems wrong.

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them. No one believes this, but it's the same. I'm the same person, trying to make it work. I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

I think that running a studio gave me an appetite for making a lot of different kinds of movies and it's given me the opportunity to do that.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.