Independent Quotes

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.

No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went around killing people. It was called Travelers, and it was made as an independent film.

I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.

I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.

There's no such thing as an independent person.

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent, but right now I'm very comfortable, and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe.

I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.

I'm very independent.

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.