Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

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

Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.

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.

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

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

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

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

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

Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!

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

It is always wonderful to have a theatrical release; lot of filmmakers desire that.

I used to run with Chris Nolan before he was 'Chris Nolan.' I remember when he was trying to sell 'Memento,' and he just couldn't.

I always maintain that the film industry and film people across the globe are more or less the same.

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

To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.

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

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 think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

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

I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.

I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.

I took all my TV experience and what I learned about - by writing and directing and bringing a movie to Sundance - about the realities of the independent film market: 'Transparent' is the marriage of those two situations.