Lexi Alexander Quotes

I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

I did a few independent films, but there is no money in them.

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

I'd love to do more independent films.

Independent films, for the most part, to me, are not so independent. They often feel like people auditioning for a big commercial career. They often do not have independent spirit to them.

You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

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

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.

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.

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.

I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.

The independent-minded movies - it's always an uphill battle to get them made and seen. You do what you can, and go out there after and try to tell people about it, but at the end of the day, that's all you can do.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

As long as there's really good actors that use their clout to support fringe films, whatever genre it is, they'll still get made.

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.

A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

'New Girl' is how I make my living, and if I'm going to do a movie, it's because I really, artistically, want to do it.

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.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

There are definitely strictly independent movies. 'Gummo' is one. Another is one I made, 'Fresh,' a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.