I’ve always been indie.
To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.
I’m used to doing U.K. indie films, like, six weeks of filming, tops.
If you look at ‘Avatar,’ could you imagine if you did ‘Avatar’ for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.
I remember in 2016 when I got signed to my record label Good Soldier, which is a very small indie label. They took a big risk on me because ballads were the furthest thing from cool at the time.
I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about… being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I’d like to do more well-written indies. I don’t know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it’s somewhere within that realm.
It’s always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies – character-driven stuff.
I worked with an indie filmmaker called Mark Williams, a lawyer who was making a zero-budget family drama called ‘Move Me.’
Just because I front the band or we play bigger stages now, it doesn’t mean we somehow suddenly changed the way we approach things. We all still view what we do as indie and alternative in terms of how we execute it, even if the actual music we make is more pop than our previous projects.
The word ‘indie’ is meaningless now. It’s so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.
Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring them with you onto your television show. I just brought every single person with and expanded my little indie film world.
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.
For me, I always loved summer movies. I love indie movies, foreign films, but there’s definitely a part of me that loves summer movies, ever since I was a kid.
Bollywood is such a space where you get to work with so many genres. Genres being pushed isn’t the way of looking at it. In fact, I think Indie needs to be given a lot more focus or recognition.
I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.
Being an indie artist, you have to fight for position against a major.
If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who’s had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.
We’re not going to do any titles in Bloodsport. That’s really just for a very very very simple reason and that is because as an indie wrestling promotion, there is no guarantee that we can ensure that we can have return on talent. If someone gets picked up, there’s nothing we can do to make sure we keep them.
It’s such a pleasure hosting ‘Indie Hain Hum’ season 2. My love for Indie artists and music has grown and shown me a whole new dimension after I stepped in as a host and RJ for this show.
In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it’s seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn’t have ordinarily come across their genre of music.
We all like indie directors – heck, I even married one… but we’re divorced now.
Our first record as the Veronicas was a big mainstream success. Maybe if we’d had the indie record first, then the breakout record, it would have been supported by Triple J.
The first wrestling event I ever went to was PCW Ultra in L.A., and it was insane. They had RVD wrestling, Shane Strickland, Penta, and all these incredible indie wrestlers.
I would love to do anything from a really gritty, interesting, indie type film, to that commercial, bigger stuff.
I don’t want to be ‘box-office girl,’ but I don’t want to be ‘that indie girl’ either.
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I’d try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I’m not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith.’ I know I haven’t lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.
Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I’ve just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
Don’t expect me to be some indie schmindie embarrassed about my success.
I kept thinking, ‘How do you make a modern musical?’ Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it’s o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.
You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.
‘Five Easy Pieces,’ ‘Easy Rider’ – those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.
Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you that most of the good horror films made in the U.S. are indie films. You might get ‘The Ring’ or ‘The Others,’ but most are independently produced.
There’s something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I’m working on.
It’s wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we’ve see on TV in the past.
NME is normally associated with indie rock. It ain’t something I read as a kid.
We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.
In case you don’t know this, we’re not in the ’90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
My dad would play ‘The Blue Album’ a lot, the first Weezer album, and that influenced my alternative indie thing and that’s kind of how I found tons and most of my favorite bands.
I think it would be different to work with a guy like Kanye West or Jay-Z, those guys are so phenomenal, but just to work with a rapper, I don’t think is really my thing. I really like songs, like true songs. Like indie songs.
What’s cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn’t. I like that elusiveness.
There can be a wrong time – it’s happened to countless bands where they release their first record on a major label and never learned what they maybe should have learned on an indie.
I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It’s a great indie label and I listen to music all day. I meet people online and find out about the cool new music blogs.
‘Mr. Robot,’ in particular, signals the rise of a fresh post-Occupy portrayal of the wealth gap. No longer is the story of income inequity delivered via a well-meaning, crushingly earnest indie film by John Sayles or in a single laugh line on ‘Roseanne.’
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.
Indie world won’t have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
In the wrestling world, you had WWE, WCW, and smaller promotions that were like the independents. I look at it as craft beer being the independent beer makers. It’s the indie scene.
I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.
In British music, you have indie, rock… Grime is now one of those pillars. It’s a foundation of British music.
A lot of the music I was inspired by growing up – college rock, DIY, what they used to call indie rock – has a value system where truth-telling and authenticity are oppositional with mass media, showbiz, and commerce.
A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there’s this marriage of songs that structurally are quite bluesy. Sound-wise, there’s a lot of indie as well. But you can’t really say I’m pop-blues, because that’s insulting to blues. It just can’t exist.
No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.
First off, I don’t want anyone to think I’m this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that’s made any records over any length of time – even indie bands – have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan.
It hasn’t really made it easier getting film work. It’s not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say – insert haughty voice here – ‘It’s Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I’m wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.’
