I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.
I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.
Based on the name value I had, I went to L.A. and got involved in independent movies.
I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.
I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.
I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.
It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system.
Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.
Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.
Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.
It's odd, because 'Mad Men' was the first long-form TV thing I ever did. I'd done loads of independent movies, but after that, it was 'TV actor.' You go, 'When did that happen? Everything else has been erased?'
Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
I'm an actor because of movies like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Jurassic Park.'
During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.
I don't think of the 'indie film world' as this cohesive kind of world anyhow. It's so disparate: all these different filmmakers seeking financing from many different sources to make different kinds of movies. It's hard to pinpoint a trend, really.
It's still possible to make movies. Not so much on YouTube. On YouTube, you wind up with an advertising career. What movie became infamous and a hit because of YouTube? Maybe there is one. I don't know.
In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.
