Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lupita Nyong'o

I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.

Giorgio Armani

Sì is my tribute to modern femininity, an irresistible combination of grace, strength and independent spirit.

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

Guillermo del Toro

If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

Greg Laswell

At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money.

Michael Parenti

Editors and reporters are not as free and independent to invite a variety of opinions as they might think. They are free to say what they like only as long as their bosses like what they say. They are free to produce what they want if their product remains within acceptable political boundaries. You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when your stray that you feel the restraining tug.

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.

George Carlin

To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.

George Carlin

In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

George C. Scott

We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

Christopher Dodd

I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.

Christian McKay

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

Chris Rock

I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic.

Havelock Ellis

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.

Hans Frank

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

Greta Van Susteren

I'm an independent type. No one tells me what to do.

Gerhard Schroder

We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

Henry David Thoreau

It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man's busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.

Jennifer Lopez

What you realize is it's not about financial success as an artist. A lot of actors and actresses, producers, writers, and the creative people in the business realize that. It's not about that. Yeah, we all want to be successful, but we all just want to create and we want to tell the stories. We want to continue creating the opportunities to be able to continue doing what we love. So, at the end of the day, I feel like it's a win-win for everybody to be able to make these independent films.

Jackson Browne

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent”s Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

Christopher Lasch

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

Gottfried Leibniz

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

Hassan Nasrallah

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?

Harvey Weinstein

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

Harold Pinter

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

Griffin Dunne

In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.

Griffin Dunne

And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture.

Irene Cara

That first apartment was a big step. It has a lot to do with being independent.