Sundance Quotes

• Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.

  Britney Spears

  Thinking, Watches

  The Washington Post, January 31, 2003.

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• I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

  Paul Newman

  Dream, Vision, World

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• Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

  Robert Redford

  Discovery, Voice, Talent

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• You know, when I was a kid, I always thought Id grow up to be a hero.

  Butch Cassidy

  Growing Up, Hero, Kids

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• Kid - the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia.

  Butch Cassidy

  Kids, Bolivia, Next

  "Fictional character: Butch Cassidy". "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", 1969.

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• Small price to pay for beauty.

  Butch Cassidy

  Pay

  "Fictional character: Butch Cassidy". "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", 1969.

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• It feels kind of good to be [on Sundance]. There is a sense of unification and community and voices rising together, and that all feels good.

  Elijah Wood

  Voice, Community, Feel Good

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• What's great about the Sundance Film Festival is the festival takes over that town as it's intended to do. But, it's very focused on a lot of other filmmakers and distributors so it almost feels like, while they're a lot of so-called civilians there, it's an opportunity that you have to see, to show your stuff to the other folks, your peers really, and to get that reaction.

  Alex Gibney

  Opportunity, Peers, Festivals

  Source: collider.com

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• Never give up. I do believe it is harder for female directors. I have been lucky to receive support from the Sundance Institute for my first film. I'm eternally grateful for their support. I think you need to be surrounded artistically and follow your intuition - always follow your intuition.

  Sophie Barthes

  Giving Up, Believe, Grateful

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's a lot of hyperventilation that takes off before the [Sundance Film] Festival, a lot of buzz. Every year we hear, this is going to be the new this, this is going to be the new that, and it never is. The buzz just doesn't mean anything. I'm glad it doesn't. Because I think the festival shows that what succeeds is content.

  Robert Redford

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance.

  Lynn Shelton

  Grateful, Artist, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• I'll just say it: I love Sundance; my very first film won Sundance.

  Ron Eldard

  Firsts, Film

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• I always wanted to go to Sundance.

  Eve Hewson

  Wanted

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• Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.

  Taika Waititi

  Thinking, Festivals, Suits

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Baby, Feels, Acknowledge

  "Magnolia maniac". www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2000.

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

  Marc Webb

  Special, Protective, Budgets

  "Exclusive Interview: Director Marc Webb on (500) DAYS OF SUMMER". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. July 16, 2009.

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• Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.

  Nicholas Jarecki

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think what Robert Redford established is amazing; thank god for Robert Redford. He's set an amazing example with Sundance and I hope to follow that in my own way.

  John Boyega

  Thinking, Thank God, Example

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Mark Zupan

  Vegas, Laid Back, Kevin

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• 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 happy with - or at least I'm never happy with it - and you've seen it in the roughest of states, and you lose perspective, really.

  James Ponsoldt

  Perspective, Film, States

  Source: collider.com

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• Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie, which is for your heart and you don't get paid up front and probably don't make any money on it, but it hopefully goes to Sundance and is more of an art movie, and then you do TV.

  Jason Blum

  Art, Independent, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• I've heard a lot of variation of similar questions, but it's interesting to see the variations of audiences and how different people respond, so I think it's all valid. I don't take it personally at this point, which I probably would have at Sundance. But it's really thrilling.

  James Ponsoldt

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• It 2001 when we started. But prior to that, I had made this website called sundancepics.com, where me and this other photographer, Randall Michelson, could sell our images from Sundance online and it was successful. Steve Granitz, who's my main partner at WireImage, we were already working together, and I was like, "Look dude, this is it. We can do this."

  Jeff Vespa

  Successful, Working Together, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That's what set me on my way. I thought we did good work and had a good film, but when it was so praised at Sundance that year that's what really started the ball rolling. We all paid our own way to Sundance.

  Jacki Weaver

  Years, Balls, Way

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• There's a film there in competition [of Sundance Film Festival] called To The Bone. It's directed by Marti Noxon. I have a supporting role in it. It got really well received. It's a really great film.

  Keanu Reeves

  Competition, Roles, Festivals

  Source: lrmonline.com

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