Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Muir

I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free....

John Waters

I think it's all independent films. There aren't any! If they were looking for me when I was making Polyester, then it'd be perfect, but they're not. I'm not looking for that. TV is much bigger and better now; far more people see it.

John Waters

I think that in America there is a new movement of underground movies that wants to kick the ass of independent films that they think whine too much.

John Thune

This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.

John Rutledge

So long as we mayhavean independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.

John Ruskin

In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

John Stossel

People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators is that they almost always make things worse. If regulators did nothing, the self-correcting mechanisms of the market would mitigate most problems with more finesse. And less cost.

John Steinbeck

Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.

John Pilger

It's only when journalists understand the role they play in this propaganda, it's only when they realize they can't be both independent, honest journalists and agents of power, that things will begin to change.

Nicole Kidman

I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.

Nicole Kidman

In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.

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.

Martha Plimpton

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

Mark Ruffalo

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

Ted Olson

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

Margaret Haddix

...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.

Margaret J. Wheatley

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Margaret Fuller

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

Michael Fassbender

I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.