Imogen Poots Quotes

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

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

The reach of big-budget films is bigger, but I have always loved doing films that I believe in.

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

In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

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.

I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.

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

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

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.

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

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

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.

It kind of irks me that the studio films still have to be so safe even though they don't really cost as much to make.

Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of money. I think they're more interesting because they're not watered down to appeal to the masses. They tend to have a unique voice.

With independent films, you again get to work with new directors and experiment too.

I am glad that we can make bold films, different films within the commercial market and still do well.

You cannot make a living doing independent films.

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

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

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.