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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• My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Independent

• Film has to describe and show.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Film
  • Show
  • Describe

• I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Country
  • Independent
  • Rather

• 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

• You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Money
  • Film
  • Audience

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

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Should
  • Look

• The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Film
  • Characters
  • Industry

• 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 was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Work
  • Job
  • Film

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

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Camera

• A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • You
  • Film

• If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• Like for Putin it's really about hosting this two-week [Olympic] party and showing it off to the world.It's a pride thing. It's a big PR exercise for him and for Russia. So, at that point $50 billion and some environmental damage and a small city's future don't really matter.

  

  Gary Hustwit
  • Party
  • Exercise
  • Environmental

• You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Free

• Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Giving

• 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