Passion Project Quotes

I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

I simply asked if I could have a go at adapting a screenplay. But I did not want any money, in case I failed because I did not want a script out there with my name on it that might be completely dysfunctional.

Yeah, it was always a low-budget passion project. It's my directing debut. I've always wanted to make an improv movie because I have so much experience in it, but it's not a big studio movie. It was an experiment that turned out better than I thought.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.

If you do an indie film, where it's like, "We don't have a lot of money to give you, but we'll really give you a lot of freedom," that's really a luxury to have in this business. At least for myself, because I'm still kind of earning my acting credibility.

I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

I did a film that I shot in 24 hours that was self-financed for $5,000. It was a feature called Looking For Jimmy that I shot with a bunch of friends. I spent eight months editing because we had 24 hours of footage that made no sense and I learned a lot about directing while editing that film.

In lower budget filmmaking, everything is a favor. You're pushing everybody, all the time. You're trying to get the best out of it that you can, and it has to be a labor of love, or you can't get it done.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

I had taken a bit of a sabbatical because I was producing and directing films. But acting has always been my passion and it is something that I will continue to do.

'One Million Bullets' is my baby.

I feel I have been a part of some very wonderful films, and I have had it in mind when I was on the set, every day, that what I am doing has meaning.

Really study what types of formats have been working online that you resonate with: get a feel for what works in the current ecosystem of online video. Sometimes, that passion-project you really want to do is not the way to start.

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

I've been watching 'Luther' since the beginning. My family adore it, too, so it was like a passion project for me.

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

I’ve never done a film for the money

I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw.

I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.

I'm thankful that I proved myself in music which is my first love, my first passion before I got involved in this media. I am hoping to bring it back to the music now.

All I'm doing is being in films that I would watch if I wasn't in this industry.