That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.

- Edward Burns

I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.

- Lily James

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

- Kathleen Edwards

I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.

- Kodi Smit-McPhee

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

- Kristen Stewart

I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.

- Kirsten Dunst

Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.

- Kevin Smith

I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

- Joshua Leonard

The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.

- Jeff Daniels

We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

- Gabrielle Union

I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

- Aaron Paul

You are at the mercies of the dailies. With an indie you don't have that.

- Dianne Wiest

The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.

- David Tennant

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

- Drake

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

- David Byrne

I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.

- Charlie McDermott

It's so funny because the roles that I've been offered in the indie film world have been similar to each other, and the roles that I've been offered in the TV world have been similar to each other, but the TV roles and the indie film roles have been completely different.

- Courtney Ford

I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

- Caitlin Rose

I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.

- Chloe Sevigny

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.

- Allison Anders