Sam Levinson Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

There have been movies like 'Paranormal Activity' or 'Blair Witch Project' in Hollywood that showed you could do movies with little or no money. It doesn't prevent them from creating larger than life spectacles as well.

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

Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.

I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.

I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.

Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your laptop, or Netflix it, or download it, or watch it on-demand. But I think we also have to maintain the sacredness of the movie theatre as church - especially with event screenings.

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

The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.

I always wanted to go to Sundance.

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

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

I have respect for anyone who's going to go out and make a movie for a small budget and turn it into a phenomenon. God bless you. Please keep making movies. That's great. But it's not what entertains me.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to do justice to their films.

I'm so damn lucky to still be here at 85. If I get a hangnail, I don't dare complain! Life is good. I wake up humming.

My first film festival and my first film that I've ever been in, 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' that was at Sundance.

Every day, I like to wake up and remind myself to be grateful of the simple things.