Jason Ritter Quotes

I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.

I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

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.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

I did a few independent films, but there is no money in them.

The reach of big-budget films is bigger, but I have always loved doing films that I believe in.

I've never been in this business to make money. I've always been in it to make good music.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

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.

The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what's paying the most money or what's most popular.

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.

I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them.

The only film I ever made for money was something called 'Music From Another Room', which I really didn't like.

I often find the smaller, independent films are much more rewarding than the bigger stuff, but you do the bigger stuff because it's a business, and you've got to show your face a bit, get yourself around.

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.

I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.

You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.