Quotes of: Indie-film Keyword

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

Pauline Collins

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

Philip Kaufman

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

Padma Lakshmi

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

Patrice Leconte

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

Piper Perabo

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

Ralph Fiennes

I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.

Rupert Friend

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

Ricky Jay

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

Ross Kemp

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

Richard Linklater

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

Richard Linklater

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

Richard Linklater

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

Rani Mukerji

Audiences aren't fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

Stephen Frears

I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.

Stephen Frears

I'm sure there have been missed opportunities, with films I've turned down that went on to be successful, but everyone in the industry has had that happen.

Sean Pertwee

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

Sidney Poitier

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

Stephen Rea

If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

Seann William Scott

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

Shane West

I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.

Steven Yeun