Susanna Fogel Quotes

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

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

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

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

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.

I'm not going to head off and do a Marvel film. So if I don't do a Marvel film, I don't have any other choice - I've got to go make a small New Zealand movie!

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

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

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

I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.

I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones.

Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.

'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?

'Saw' really came from that want, the aspiration to make a feature film on our own.

'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie' were the only films that I made totally on my own.

My one hope for Netflix and Amazon is to be a little more art house- and indie-friendly, pushing those just as hard as they push their originals.

When you watch a film like 'Warning,' you would realize that it can't be made with stars.

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

My offbeat choices definitely don't get me too much money because they are made in a very restrained budget. We do it because we love cinema, because we are passionate about the content and new ways of storytelling.

I did very much enjoy being part of an independent film. It was just the energy.