Dollars Quote by Yony Leyser

What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know…

— Aaron Paul

Sundance is a really special place. They're very protective of movies, especially lower-budget movies.

— Marc Webb

I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

— Ira Sachs

By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't…

— James Ponsoldt

Sundance is such an acquisition-frenzied, industry-centric experience, and at SXSW, many of the movies have distribution. And the focus is more on positioning the…

— Jason Blum

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.

— Donal Logue

[Sundance is] giving people a chance - many first-time filmmakers. It carries that weight - if you bring something here, people connect with it…

— Elijah Wood

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

— Donal Logue

I so respect Sundance. I'd been hearing about it for years.

— Craig Robinson

There's so many great films coming out. It's still kind of astonishing to me how certain films get ignored, and that film ended up…

— Elvis Mitchell

There were just two of us women filmmakers at Sundance in '94, and there was no sense of camaraderie or welcoming - no fault…

— Kelly Reichardt

When I went to Sundance back in 1998, indie film was all the rage, and Miramax was throwing down five or six million dollars…

— Brad Anderson