Allison Anders Quotes

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

The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.

As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

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.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

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

Multiplex cinema culture has created a level-playing field for directors where small budget movies are able to break even, even make profit.

Without the huge budgets, mainstream Bengali cinema falls flat on its face.

When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a life actually in theaters, it's extraordinary. And it doesn't happen that often.

I think the art film, or the auteur-driven film - and not only foreign, but domestic films following that path - can get a small share of the box office. And I think that small share may open up a little bit.

I'm really interested in making movies that people see: I've made a lot of independent films and it's really depressing when no one sees them.

'Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now.

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.

Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.

People are making better and better small budge independent films these days.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

I personally like to do independent films.

While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.

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

I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

I don't see many explosions or ten-car crashes in the course of my life, so I don't put them into my movies. I would love to live in a society where 'My Dinner with Andre' made $100,000,000. Then I would be in the mainstream. I could do that stuff easier than I could do 'Meatballs.'

In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much.

There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world.