Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Haynes

As an independent filmmaker, to develop the money and the financing and the structure and the whole process, and then promoting them and traveling with them, which is a part of the process that I've always enjoyed and I've learned a great deal from.

Stephen Covey

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Stephen Covey

Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.

Stanley B. Prusiner

Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.

Spencer Grammer

I want to pay my mortgage and go on vacation, so I love working. I want to be able to do independent projects as well, and being on a successful TV show allows you to do some other things.

Spike Lee

If people go to IMDB, they will see that I'm very comfortable with independent cinema, and doing studio films too. For me this is not an either/or situation.

Spike Lee

I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at the same time, I go directly to Hollywood for financing and distribution. I find it's best for me to work within the Hollywood system.

Spike Lee

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

Silvan Shalom

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

Shawn Fanning

Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.

Steven Pressfield

Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.

Sue Grafton

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

Michael B. Jordan

Independent film making is very collaborative. You feel like it's you, the director and other actors and you really feel like you have the final say. When you do the bigger films, the studio has to give the final thumbs up and they're usually not big on risk taking because they're trying to make money.

Rand Paul

Benjamin Netanyahu said that ultimately, they will be stronger when they're independent. My position is exactly the same.We shouldn't borrow money from China to send it anywhere, but why don't we start with eliminating aid to our enemies.

Ralph Bakshi

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

Rajneesh

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

Rachel Weisz

I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.

Sean Bean

To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!

Sean Duffy

I don't necessarily support Romney, I don't consider myself a Republican. I'm pretty much an independent.

Michelle Kwan

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

Michael Urie

I worked on three independent movies in close succession and I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship.

Michael Pitt

I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good. The main reason is not to make money, although at some points it's really difficult when you're broke.

Sherilyn Fenn

In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique

Skitch Henderson

In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.

Siobhan Davies

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

Socrates

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Sienna Guillory

After six years of working on low-budget independent films of the too-weird-to-watch variety, being asked by DreamWorks to come and play with the big boys, it was like finding an unicorn in your sock drawer.

Michelle Rodriguez

Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.

Michelle Rodriguez

The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

John Quincy Adams

From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.

Norman Jewison

When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.

Norm MacDonald

I'm happy doing stand-up, but I'll probably do a television show eventually. If not, I'll delve into this Internet world and decide best how to harness it. What I like best about it is the independent movie style and the ability to just be completely reckless within that world. I like that a lot. I just have to acquaint myself with technology.

Nobuo Uematsu

I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music.