Top 138 Sundance Quotes & Sayings

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 think it's probably a normal dream for an actor to be like, 'My movie's premiered at Sundance!'

I always wanted to go to Sundance.

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It still feels like an honor to bring something [on Sundance].

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.

My dad brought 'Clerks' to Sundance 22 years ago, and that's when his career started.

I'm so grateful to be part of the Sundance family.

The films that are coming out of SXSW are incredible, and they should get the same bids that films at Sundance are getting.

Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be so proud of is turned into out of control develpoment.

Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

Sundance is like a genre.

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'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.

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.

When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film.

Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.

Sundance is incredible and has been very important for my career as a filmmaker, but it's also not the only route to success. There are a ton of great movies that don't get in and go on and do wonderfully.

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.

Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

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

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.

For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.

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 when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects.

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.

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.

In 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' I play a schoolteacher who is older than I am in life - and I like that.

Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women directors.

When Sundance happened, it felt insane and not like reality at all.

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.

I've been to Sundance before, but I'd never seen a lot of screenings.

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

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

[Sundance] still feels like an incredible place for championing emerging voices and art.

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

There's only three movies I've been involved with in my whole life that I really care about. 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' was one, and 'Princess Bride' was the second, and 'Hearts in Atlantis' is the third.

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

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

I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.

That's interesting to hear you say that because watching it [the Waitress] for the first time at Sundance was fascinating - it was so different from the experience of making it.

We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

More people have seen 13th on Netflix than have seen all my films put together between the Sundance winners and Selma, and the whole international distribution of film.

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

Sundance claimed to be "rebellious" on all of their programs, but they are not. Most of the movies at Sundance were multi-million dollar pictures that were already guaranteed a theatrical release.

The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director all came because of the reputation I got coming out of Sundance as a veteran Sundance filmmaker.

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.

I'm also on the Board at Sundance, so I've seen witnessed first hand the power of independent storytelling.

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

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

I know there's a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I'm all for that, too, and I appreciate it in alternative music, and I appreciate it in B-movies and in Sundance, independent films.

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.

I've had something like seven films at Sundance, one of which won the Grand Jury Prize.

Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.

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

Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.

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.

Slamdance actually is indie and rebellious. Sundance obviously felt threatened.

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.