Anubhav Sinha Quotes

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

Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.

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

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

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

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

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

Saw' was a film that James Wan and I came up with back in Australia and we were just hoping anyone, literally, anyone would make that film and if nobody would give us the money we were going to shoot it in a garage somewhere.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

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

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

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

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

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.

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.

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

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

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

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

I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies that in all likelihood are made without stars. And then they have to rely just on the material.

I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed.