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To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.
Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.
As an independent artist, there can be nothing better than the fact that your song will be played and heard in different corners of the world.
To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.
Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.
I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.
Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.
From here [the Gaza withdrawal], our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital
I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.
There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.
We will remain independent for as long as our economy develops as needed. We won't be able to maintain our independence if we ruin the economy.
I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988.
If you are concerned you are the victim of illegal corporate surveillance, you should seek specialist - and independent - legal advice at once.
No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.
I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.
I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.
There are definitely strictly independent movies. 'Gummo' is one. Another is one I made, 'Fresh,' a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.
Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.
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.
That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.
The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.
Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to being herded.
The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.
Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.
To the nameless and unsung heroes of our freedom struggle, we offer our humble tribute. Their life-blood nourishes the body of independent India.
In 2016, let us all join the Rising, and the only final message is this very clear: Up the Rebels. Up a sovereign and independent Irish republic.
Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.
Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.
Being completely independent doesn't make you a strong woman - it's being strong enough to trust yourself in other people's hands that takes guts.
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 simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.
We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.
One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others
Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit - a channel for self-actualization.
But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?
Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.
If you’re really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself.
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.
I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.
Back in the day when I started on the independent scene, guys would not watch women's matches, and if they did, they would do it to make fun of us.
I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.
I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
The ideal intern is committed, creative, organized, ambitious, independent, and able to crack a smile, whether meeting a celebrity or folding socks.