Gillian Jacobs Quotes

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

'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.

I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.

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.

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work.

On an independent film where you're working with just a handful of people, you don't have to explain anything because no one cares. You can do whatever you want. There's no one there to tell you not to do it.

If you're making a smaller movie, you're almost obligated to do something unexpected and surprising.

If you do an indie film, where it's like, "We don't have a lot of money to give you, but we'll really give you a lot of freedom," that's really a luxury to have in this business. At least for myself, because I'm still kind of earning my acting credibility.

I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.

Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women.

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.

I don't think of the 'indie film world' as this cohesive kind of world anyhow. It's so disparate: all these different filmmakers seeking financing from many different sources to make different kinds of movies. It's hard to pinpoint a trend, really.

I guess, in a sense, 'Audition' was a film that gave me an opportunity that I hadn't had up until that point. So that's definitely one that is important to me. Then there's 'Visitor Q' that kind of taught me that there are some kinds of films that can only be made as low-budget films that really wouldn't work as anything else.

Working with David Lynch, rules go out the door.

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

It is more difficult to make film which does not have a big name. People start questioning the cast and the budget.

I always say a film should be given breathing space.

I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

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

The only chance for a guy like me is to make a decent picture for a reasonable budget. If it brings in a profit for investors, maybe I'll have the opportunity to make something else.

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 not really trying to reach a big mass of an audience. My movies are done for a tiny, tiny budget, and that affords me to make them more personal.