There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.
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PENNEBAKER I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's ... ZELJKO IVANEK There can be a progression to the dream; there can be steps to it. When you dissect any successful p... AVA DUVERNAY Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my fi... DEREK MAGYAR 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, ... IRA GLASS All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that yo... PAUL GREENGRASS You can't make anything without making mistakes, do you know what I mean? Robert De Niro's i... JAMES CORDEN If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's... ALEX CHILTON I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're goi... DAVID R. ELLIS It is easy to be independent when you've got money. 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