Robin Wright Quotes

I would love to do anything from a really gritty, interesting, indie type film, to that commercial, bigger stuff.

My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.

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'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.

The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I'm certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

I loved 'Junebug.' It was one of my favorite films, my favorite type of film.

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

Like, I'm a big fan of films from the '70s, like Cassavetes and things, where they just keep the dialogue really loose and just kind of roll, you know what I mean?

I think the merging of high and low culture is so fascinating.

I loved 'Clueless.' That was one of my favorite movies of all time.

I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.

Hollywood's a big place, and they make all sorts of different movies. Some movies I'm attracted to; a lot of the movies I'm not. But there are some terrifically talented people over there that I'd love to work with.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

I like to enjoy good music. I like Michael Jackson; I don't care who wrote the songs.

It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally.

I love pop music. I've tried to always be honest about that.

'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

I remember when I made 'A Scanner Darkly,' going, 'I hope people see it in theater - but I think it's going to be seen in someone's room at two in the morning.' It's that kind of movie. And I would have loved if it had been available on multiple formats at the moment it opened.

There's a big difference between the independent film world and the Hollywood film world, and I don't know that I understood that until I got into certain rooms, and people's faces go blank when you talk about Sundance.

I like Hindi movies. Although my wife thinks the hero and heroine breaking into a song and dance every five minutes is ridiculous, but I find them entertaining.