My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.
I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.
There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.
The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.
To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.
This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.
I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.
Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.
And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.
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.
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.
Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.
I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.
Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.
Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
