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I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest.

Independent films, for the most part, to me, are not so independent. They often feel like people auditioning for a big commercial career. They often do not have independent spirit to them.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

I've always treated my career like independent. Everything that I got is because of myself, my own endorsements, my own touring myself.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.