Hugh Grant Quotes

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.

I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn't go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. But I think I've fooled everybody. I've made personal films all along. I just made them in another form.

That's what I want to continue to do: really odd films, with interesting filmmakers.

I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.

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 love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

I personally like to do independent films.

Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.

I believe in making movies very inexpensively; I think that way too much money is spent on making movies. Enough movies are being made, but not enough experimental ones.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

It's sweet to hear, but anyone who says that they want to be the next John Cassavetes is crazy. He had it so tough. No one would want to walk a step in his shoes. Believe me - I wouldn't.

People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.