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Sundance is like a genre.
Small price to pay for beauty.
I always wanted to go to Sundance.
Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.
I'm so grateful to be part of the Sundance family.
Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women directors.
I so respect Sundance. I'd been hearing about it for years.
Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
I'll just say it: I love Sundance; my very first film won Sundance.
When Sundance happened, it felt insane and not like reality at all.
I've been to Sundance before, but I'd never seen a lot of screenings.
When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film.
Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.
Slamdance actually is indie and rebellious. Sundance obviously felt threatened.
The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
My dad brought 'Clerks' to Sundance 22 years ago, and that's when his career started.
Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.
I've had something like seven films at Sundance, one of which won the Grand Jury Prize.
I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.
Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.
Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.
It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
I'm also on the Board at Sundance, so I've seen witnessed first hand the power of independent storytelling.
Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.
In 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' I play a schoolteacher who is older than I am in life - and I like that.
My first film festival and my first film that I've ever been in, 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' that was at Sundance.
I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.
So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.
The films that are coming out of SXSW are incredible, and they should get the same bids that films at Sundance are getting.
I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool.
My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.
I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29, when I made my first short film that went to Sundance.
What's exciting about Sundance is that they're making a name for themselves in this boutique television niche world, and there's energy behind that.
I saw 'Birth' at the Sundance Film Festival with a thousand other strangers, and I couldn't believe that was me in the film. I didn't recognize myself.
I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.
When I went to Sundance for 'Afternoon Delight,' I came back feeling like I wanted to take my experience that I learned from directing and bring that into a series.
There's a great deal of women in film school. I was not the only woman in my class at UCLA. When I went through the Sundance program, it was half women and half men.
For me, the Sundance Institute is just an extension of something I believed in, which is creating a mechanism for new voices to have a place to develop and be heard.
I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.
I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.
I couldn't get a job to save my life. That's why I wrote 'Road to Paloma.' That got into Sundance and got into that scene, and that's how I got the role in 'The Red Road.'
I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea.
I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.
Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.
When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.
I love South By because people are more relaxed here, and people are a little more off guard. They say things and react more freely than Sundance or Cannes. I love the feel of this festival.
I've never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have 'Animal Kingdom.' There's not a single bad review that I've read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise.
The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet.