Rachel Morrison Quotes

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

I'd made this film called 'This Little Life,' and it went round the fests and won awards and did well.

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

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

Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.

A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.

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

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

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

I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd.

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

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.

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

I think it took me seven years before I got the script for 'Frozen River.' That's the movie I had been looking for my whole career. When I read that, I knew I had to shoot that movie - that it'd be a game-changer. It was one of those scripts where I read it, and I was like, 'This movie could get into Sundance.'

Sometimes success is just limited to festival circuit.

Some films will work, some won't.

I have the soul of a director.

I want to remind people that we create films for the MMFF as gifts to them, not to see whose entry is better or which film earned more at the tills.

The films Sony Pictures Classics has distributed throughout the years have been of great inspiration to me. I'm very excited to find such a great home for 'The Rider.'

You don't necessarily have to have your movie made to have success.

Sundance is like a genre.

'Vicky Donor' or 'Madras Caf,' John's films have been path-breaking. I have full faith in the script of my movie, and my director, too, is a debutante. I like the conviction with which they work, and that gives me a lot of confidence.

I thought it would be interesting to try something in Hollywood after a movie like 'Valhalla Rising,' which I was really pleased with, personally.

I have always made films with actors who became superstars.

'Karyam Nissaram' and 'Oru Painkili Katha' ran for 100 days, 'Ammayana Sathyam' for 97 days and other hits were 'Kelkatha Sabdam,' 'Arante Mulla Kochu Mulla' and 'Aniyatha Valakal.'