Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Oldman

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

Jim Clyburn

Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.

Jennifer Westfeldt

With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.

Jello Biafra

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

Jello Biafra

One of the best things that's come out of the Seattle protests is the birth of the Independent Media Center. It's not as though the independent media movement wasn't already there, but it's given it another jump-start. There's the feeling that not only should we report on our underground culture and our own situation, but now we have to start telling people what's really going on at a time when everything from CNN to USA Today is as tightly controlled as Tass or Pravda.

Jeb Bush

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

Jennifer Granholm

America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there.

George Will

Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.

Jean Piaget

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

Gena Rowlands

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

Galileo Galilei

Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.

Fred Brooks

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

Franz Kafka

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

Eric Williams

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

Erica Jong

The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.

Elon Musk

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

Jason Patric

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

Harrison Ford

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

Harrison Ford

I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent vision. I am a purposeful person. But on a daily basis, I think I'm other than grumpy. I think it is a case where I am coming to do business and not there just to be flattered and cajoled and used.

Guy Oseary

The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.

Guy Maddin

The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W. Murnau's masterpieces, or that you couldn't see so many of Oscar Micheaux's really intriguing race melodramas, made with fierce independent spirit against all odds in '20s and '30s America. That stuff haunted me. They really did bring to life a sense of 20th Century history: cultural history, pop history, gender politics and race politics, socio economic history, all that stuff. It was bracing and instructive.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.

Jack Kirby

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.

Isabella Rossellini

True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.

Ingvar Kamprad

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home

Illeana Douglas

I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

Jack Kerouac

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

B. R. Ambedkar

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

Bhagat Singh

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

Cathy Moriarty

I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.

Bethenny Frankel

Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you.