20 Quotes by Geoffrey Gilmore

A number of years ago in the '90s, we used to see a world of independent film that was more insular, a more personal world, with genres that tended to be more limited. People are very much aware the world they're living in now is much more polarized. A lot of films in this festival are dealing with moral values in very specific, detailed social and political environments.

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.

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.

It's a festival that very much kind of underscores for me what independent film-making is,

It's an independent film-making that is not going to be mistaken by anybody for films that come out of Hollywood.

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

Sundance is very much about a spectrum of work. ... This year, it's a festival that feels more independent, that feels less mainstream.

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

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.