Leigh Whannell Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

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.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.

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

At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie.

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

I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

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

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

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

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

I'd love to do more independent films.

Independent films, for the most part, to me, are not so independent. They often feel like people auditioning for a big commercial career. They often do not have independent spirit to them.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

It's the reality: film is a director's medium, and, ultimately, they are the ones that are in charge, and you have to respect that because somebody has to be in charge. But, yeah, you do reach a point where you want to have your voice come out.

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.

I personally like to do independent films.

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.