It's rare that a group of us programmers will walk into a movie and walk out unified in our response.

A number of films ... have taken a story that may not seem so fresh, but they made it fresh because of their level of detail and nuance.

This year's festival is as 'independent' as it's ever been. There can be no confusion between the films we're showing and anything the studios would have even considered making.

I'm really expecting surprises. I'm really expecting myself to be surprised, when I want to look out and see what's going to play and what people are going to respond to.

This year's program reflects all the exceptional qualities we've come to associate with independent film.

A lot of the people that sent us international work sometimes thought Sundance wasn't a place for them. Now they do. It's exciting to us.

There's nothing in that competition that will ever be mistaken by anybody as having emerged from a Hollywood company.

Come Early Morning. I really admire someone who's willing to take on the kind of role she's willing to take on.

Not at all. Not one piece of me would have said that at any level.