Non-Mainstream Quotes

There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one.

OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.

We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.

I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.

I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.

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

When we started, our style of music wasn't on MTV. It wasn't cool, and it wasn't popular. The only bands who were even kind of similar were Blink-182 and Green Day. But we don't sound like those bands, even if people throw us in that category now.

I've always identified with the misfits.

I just listen to a lot of stuff. Sometimes I play music; a lot of times, it will be stuff from back in the day. Sometimes I scan through the radio. Not the average stations that play the everyday thing.

I never wrote music for the mainstream.

To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

I have really never aligned myself with hipsterdom or coolness.

This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.

The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.

I did 'Mala Noche' as a way to do something that was outside of the system, because I was outside of the system, and I deliberately chose material that Hollywood wouldn't touch in a million years.

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

My films are completely offbeat.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.

I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know.

I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.