Art House Films Quotes

I was around New York at a time when independent cinema was at its peak and became kind of popular and mainstream. It got some hype, culturally. After that, studios started to have independent companies within their studio system, and they found bigger stars willing to do new material. That's kind of what it's turned into.

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

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

I can't be enticed by a big commercial film.

Actually I don't watch a lot of films but when I do, I like experimental, avant garde, European and world cinema. That is the language of cinema I am drawn towards. I don't watch much Hollywood or Bollywood.

I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by.

You have to go back to the '30s and '40s to see a film that's any good.

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and all Fellini movies and like everybody else I loved John Ford. Then and now, I loved Preston Sturges, maybe above anyone.

My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

People don't wish to watch masala films of the '50s any more. Audiences do not want loud films at all. They are watching Netflix and Amazon that have fresh ideas.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

I watched John Wayne movies, matinees - things like that. It was only in college that I saw European films. That became more of what I was interested in.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

My sister Zoya and I have been exposed to the best of cinema of all kinds - Chinese, Japanese, Italian, etc.

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

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.

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

My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

I want to do commercial films as well as off-beat movies.

The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them... I'm in them! But I don't go and spend my money on them.