Steven Shainberg Quotes

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.

Steven Shainberg

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• Film has to describe and show.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Film
  • Show
  • Describe

• You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Giving

• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Long
  • Way
  • Film

• I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Serious

• I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Should
  • Look

• The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Relationship
  • Film
  • Audience

• Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • You
  • Like
  • Film

• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Question
  • Party
  • Independent

• My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Film
  • Studies
  • Opening

• I've only used my own voice about four times on film.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Film
  • Voice
  • Own

• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Positive
  • Child
  • Independent

• I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Camera

• I am an independent girl. I always put my work first in my priority.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Priority

• Death does not exist.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Exist
  • Does

• All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Film

• I believe women should be independent and have their own life. But I also think that when a couple decides to have a family, things change because you need to live in unison.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Film
  • Only
  • Critic

• It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

  

  Bob Odenkirk
  • Nice
  • Taken
  • Independent

• I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Desire
  • Care
  • Slave

• I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Pirate
  • Especially
  • Mermaids

• I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Wedding
  • Boat

• People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

  

  Adam Phillips
  • Art
  • True
  • Secret

• 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.

  

  Steven Shainberg
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Exist