Dexter Fletcher Quotes

People are making better and better small budge independent films these days.

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

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.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

The kind of films I want to make are struggling to get made. And if they are getting made, they're getting made on shoestring budgets with not enough time.

The thing I love the most about low budget films is the creative freedom.

When I go and make smaller films, I actually never think about them being made for a smaller audience.

People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.

You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.

When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.

I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.

I always wanted to go to Sundance.

The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.

I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.