Non-Mainstream Films Quotes

Independent films are really the best ones out there. They're the most original stories, and they're very good.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

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

I really like Larry Clark's films, as weird as that is. I like Richard Kern films.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

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

I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career.

I'd like to be part of out-of-the-box films like 'Shahid.' I see myself being part of realistic cinema.

That's what I want to continue to do: really odd films, with interesting filmmakers.

The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.

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

In future also, we would like to back films that can be considered slightly risky since they don't have song and dance.

I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.

I ended up being exposed to cinema that a lot of other kids wouldn't have been exposed to.

I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film.

I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.

What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that, you know, big movies are going to come out, huge movies are going to come out, and then you see them up in Malibu in the little Triplex theater a week later, on the scratch negative, and you think...“This is show business. This is the great movie career. And it’s all finding it in the shoebox.”

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

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.

The few movies I can even think of that I watch over and over would be the Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie 'Boom!', 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!', and 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.' I wouldn't call any of them mainstream.

My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.