Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.

You definitely want to do the little films. They're always going to be harder, but you don't do them to make money. You do them so you can see what you can make with the research that you have.

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

I would love to do a big studio movie, just because they're going to put the money into distributing it. A lot of times you do these little movies, you love them and they never get seen by anyone.

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.

When you work on big commercial movies, of course there's more money involved and you can still do some good work. But with an independent, you get films that are really close to the writers' and directors' heart. Somehow it becomes a little deeper. A little more meat and not as much flash.

Going forward, I would love to work with directors like Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon; people like that who are doing big films but do have really independent voices. That's kind of what I want to focus on, is always working with people with at least an independent point of view, even if it's not an independent film.

I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.

'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie' were the only films that I made totally on my own.

I would like to be part of sensible cinema, irrespective of whether it is a commercial or niche film, but it doesn't always pan out like that.

I don't judge director on the basis of their last film.

The films that are coming out of SXSW are incredible, and they should get the same bids that films at Sundance are getting.

I don't say, 'Francis Ford Coppola, what a wonderful Italian-American director.' I judge him based on his film, his craft, his art. That's the way I feel I should be dealt with in this industry.

I think there are just bad films and good films. Period.

No matter what kind of film one makes, it boils down to whether it's good or not.

If I could make every movie with Richard Linklater, I would.

I don't accept films just because they have star heroes in lead. I rejected a few big films because I didn't like the story.

We just started filming 'Stray Dog' really close to the finishing of 'Winter's Bone,' down in Southern Missouri.