Quentin Tarantino Quotes

With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.

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.

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.

Many people came out and said, 'Boy I'd love to make a film that way.' Well, borrow some money, get some people together - you can get people to work for nothing, just treat them right, treat them as human beings, not stars, give them all an equal share, make them feel a part of what they're doing. There's no big secret to it.

There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.

I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.

Even with a big budget, you can make a niche film.

I did a film that I shot in 24 hours that was self-financed for $5,000. It was a feature called Looking For Jimmy that I shot with a bunch of friends. I spent eight months editing because we had 24 hours of footage that made no sense and I learned a lot about directing while editing that film.

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.

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

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

When I was 25 years old and had no money - and didn't know how to make movies and had no experience - I was able to get $25,000 together, and that film was 'The Brothers McMullen.'

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.

By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

When you're making an independent film, there is no guarantee that anyone is going to see it, ever.

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

It's just hard to get an independent film made.