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Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

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.

Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.

Independent film is film that has thought in it. There's no independent thought in studio films. It's collective thought.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies that in all likelihood are made without stars. And then they have to rely just on the material.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.