"I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them."

Movies, Film, Hate, Nothing

37

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them."

Exlpore more Movies quotes

"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."

Mark Hamill, American Actor

Movies, Actors, Suspicion

"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

Mary McCarthy, American Author

Movies, Negative, America

"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."

John Cusack, American Actor

Movies, Satire

"I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie."

Jason Patric, American Actor

Movies, Worth

"I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction."

Neil LaBute, American Director

Movies, Science, Thought, People

"I have a record company starting. It's called Flesh Records and I'm putting together music for porno movies."

Adam Jones, American Musician

Movies, Music, Company

"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."

David R. Ellis, American Director

Movies, Chance, Summer, Want

"People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape."

Neil LaBute, American Director

Movies, People

"I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately."

David Morse, American Actor

Movies, People, Difference

"I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work."

Kristen Stewart, American Actress

Movies, Work, Being, Day

Explore more quotes by Michelle Rodriguez

"I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!"

Struggle

"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."

School

"I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew."

Mom

"I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it."

Movies

"The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world."

Being

"I want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and like, sit and burp every now and then."

Now

"When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things."

Old

"I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end."

Work

"I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy."

Trade

"Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested."

Adventure