Success Quote by Faye Dunaway

Star Wars is the asteroid in Dunaway's story: not just a blockbuster, but the moment Hollywood decided spectacle could be the business model, not the occasional windfall. Her point lands because she speaks from the vanishing middle of the industry, when a studio picture could still be an adult drama with star power, sharp writing, and psychological risk - the kind of films that built (and were built by) actors like her. She isn't dunking on sci-fi so much as naming the structural pivot: money and attention got rerouted toward "hardware" - effects, franchisable worlds, opening-weekend scale.

The subtext is personal, almost elegiac. Dunaway's stardom was forged in an era when studios financed auteur-driven stories that treated actors as the primary technology. When she says "the great movies like the ones I did...are now independent movies", she's marking a cultural demotion: serious, character-led films didn't disappear, they were pushed to the margins, forced to survive on smaller budgets and prestige economics.

There's also a sly assertion of relevance. In the same breath that she mourns the industry's shift, she notes that indies "have very interesting roles". Translation: the work she values - complex women, moral ambiguity, danger - is still available, just not where Hollywood's money used to be. It's an actor's diagnosis of an ecosystem: the center got louder and shinier, while the best parts migrated to the edges, where creativity is cheaper and, sometimes, freer.