Sissy Spacek quote: "That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work."

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ELLEN PAGE

I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just beca...
ALISON PILL

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

It's two thirds cheaper than other animated films. As animated films go this is low budget.
TIM BURTON

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say...
JOEL EDGERTON

For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. ...
SISSY SPACEK

I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have ...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

It's films like 'Sideways' and 'Super Size Me' that make folks realize that low-budget films are att...
GITESH PANDYA

The judge ruled in our favor because they could not prove that work was backed up, or that phone cal...
MARTIN DRUYAN

He just complained and complained the whole time we were there...But it didn't make any difference i...
CHRIS CORNELL

I feel a lot of films that are shot digitally, even low-budget independent films, they look super sl...
COLIN TREVORROW

Twenty, thirty years ago, when Japan was a relatively minor economy, nobody cared if Japan was expor...
ANDREW SHIPLEY

Those were always the guys that I admired. I think I've maintained a relatively sort of low-key prof...
JASON LEE

I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to mo...
JORDAN GAVARIS

Nobody thought we could balance the federal budget, ... I found that if I just listened hard enough,...
ERSKINE BOWLES

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were ...
ROGER CORMAN

Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970’s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. The...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY

George Bush is a fan of mine -- he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
TOM WAITS

I'd been a cult singer-songwriter generally well-regarded by some of the better vocalists and journa...
RUPERT HOLMES

I can't even remember when the Seventies was.
ROBBIE KEANE

Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, an...
TONI COLLETTE

It was a little frustrating because it was unexpected. Nobody really felt that we were going to go i...
ANN STROTHER

When we heard about all this, we were like really disgusted. We wanted to show the school board that...
CHELSEY RICHTER

This was about a bunch of garbage that nobody cared about. His problem was that he put all his prest...
TONY QUINN

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were ...
ROGER CORMAN

We didn't have a lot of good songs; we were all about just playing good live shows. We didn't even c...
DAN MARSALA

The truth is that I didn't start out making commercial movies. My films were not film festival m...
JAMES GUNN

The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were ...
EDWARD RUSCHA

He was due back at work on Monday and I was due to go off for a couple of weeks ... he had been on h...
GREG PIERCE

As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline...
BEN MENDELSOHN

(The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)
ANNE TYLER

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

If there was a common thread between the great warriors and runaways of my Hulkinov ancestors, and m...
REBECCA MAKKAI

The last thing I cared about was myself or my health and cigarettes were something to comfort me at ...
BILL DONOHUE

It was a really low-budget film. The set was in her garage, really low budget.
BECCA GARDNER

They just out-hit them, flat out. Nobody was expecting to play. We were goofing off all day. We were...
BRYAN ADAMS

We're a product of the Sixties and Seventies, and we just won't let go.
LON MILES

I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing ...
SAM HUNT

What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-bu...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

We were nervous, and in fact, we were sitting there waiting, and my husband said, 'If I could, I wou...
GRACE CORRIGAN

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY

About all we were soliciting was 'You're welcomes,' ... Nobody go [to Barnes & Noble]. Go to amazon....
JAY FEELY

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to ...
BILL VIOLA

That was the difference. We had runners at second and third with nobody out and didn't score. We jus...
PATRICK MOORE

I wanted to try every style available to me - large productions, small productions, studio films, lo...
DANIEL WU

Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience.
HILARY ROSEN

I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come...
PAUL MICHAEL GLASER

I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fi...
LARRY DIXON

My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest ...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

At drama school nobody cared what shape my nose was and if I felt down I could be someone else for t...
NIKKI SANDERSON

That kind of did take some pressure off. We were worried about not making the conference tournament ...
ANDRE MCGEE

When was the last time we won two or three in a row? ... That's what we were talking about before th...
JOE BRYANT

The disturbing thing about the Bush forecast is that we are not just looking at the cyclical downtur...
JOHN SPRATT

Nobody's ruled out. The girl isn't back in custody and until that happens nobody will be ruled out.
DAN ROBERTS

Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script...
JUDI DENCH

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others ...
MARK ZUCKERBERG

People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me beca...
EVEL KNIEVEL

We were rubbish for 44 minutes. The best thing that could happen to us was that we were booed off. I...
CHRIS COLEMAN

There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff mad...
AJAY DEVGAN

The greatest musicians never cared to be rock stars. They just wanted to play. The greatest actors n...
RON BARATONO

I've been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about.
JAMES DENTON

The main thing was that he genuinely cared about us as people, ... And in pro football, that's prett...
DAMON HUARD

Nobody cared whether they were wasteful then because Stanford just shipped them more of whatever the...
CHARISE MCHUGH

They're really a financially conservative company. They are what they are -- they can do relatively ...
DAVID MUMPOWER

I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all wr...
GAVIN HOOD

He was looking amazing. He was feeling amazing and I think it was just wonderful to have him back on...
KARAN JOHAR

I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally chang...
ZOE KAZAN

I think that shows a lot about us and a lot about our character because we easily could have just le...
BARBARA TURNER

What we were not able to avoid today, just like yesterday, was volatility. We have to see how invest...
HECTOR JIMENEZ

I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.
SARAH DESSEN

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done i...
BRUCE BERESFORD

I love making cheap films. I really do. What I've found is that I work better when it's both...
WHIT STILLMAN

More and more, drivers ask about mileage. A few years ago, nobody cared.
BILL O'GRADY

The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.
SISSY SPACEK

She rose to the occasion. She knew Boynton Beach, and that helped a lot because we were working on a...
FLORENCE SEIDELMAN

The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have ...
JAMES WAN

I used to love Andre The Giant. I could sit around all day and listen to Andre stories. He was such ...
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN

Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-bud...
JOHN CORBETT

It was just back and forth and nobody could ever get the upper hand. We just knew that we need to ex...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.
SISSY SPACEK

I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the ...
SISSY SPACEK

I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.
SISSY SPACEK

When I first met David Lynch, he was living in the stables of the American Film Institute... He'...
SISSY SPACEK

I studied homeopathy for years and years. Herbs and all kinds of acupuncture, acupressure, alternati...
SISSY SPACEK

Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emot...
SISSY SPACEK

For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
SISSY SPACEK

I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course,...
SISSY SPACEK

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of t...
SISSY SPACEK

My father's family is German and Czech.
SISSY SPACEK

My biggest thrill in life is to read in the afternoon until I fall asleep and take a nap.
SISSY SPACEK

I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big ...
SISSY SPACEK

Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.
SISSY SPACEK

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything el...
SISSY SPACEK

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
SISSY SPACEK

I feel so blessed to get to do what I love to do and work with so many wonderfully talented people, ...
SISSY SPACEK

I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed ...
SISSY SPACEK

I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running ...
SISSY SPACEK

Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an ...
SISSY SPACEK

That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work.

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That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work.

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