Emily Beecham Quotes

I personally like to do independent films.

I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.

Basically, I have always wanted to have an art-house cinema. A cinema where we can show films that are not necessarily the current offerings on circuit and films that are not commercial.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.

I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

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.

It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.

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

I think, since the beginning, I have been attracted to unconventional films.

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

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

People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.

I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.

I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

I loved Gwyneth Paltrow in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and Reese Witherspoon in 'Election.' I love quirky films and characters like that.

Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

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

I don't like these commercial films I do. I'd far prefer to do more artistic films, more cult films.

I love movies like '500 Days of Summer' and 'Juno.' Something offbeat without the glamour and the makeup and the clothing.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.