Filmgoers Are Starved For New Ideas, Voices

Trump Is A Businessman, But He Is Such A Creature Of The Entertainment World. It Feels That The Entertainment Industry Is More Entwined With Politics Than Ever Before. I Just Think He Is Who He Is. You Can't Blame Him For Being Who He Is. He's Always Been Like That. He's Our Fault - That's How I See It. We Let Him Come To Where He Is. I'm Not So Interested In Blaming Him; That's Being Done Enough By Others. I'm More Interested In: How Did This Happen?

In 1973, I Was Shown A Graphic Of How Dependent The United States Was On Nonrenewable Resources Like Oil And Coal And That Little Was Being Done To Change That. It Seemed Irrefutable That We Needed A Change In Direction Or We'd Be Paying A Huge Price Down The Road. That's When I Made A Commitment To Become A Political Activist.

Sundance Was Started As A Mechanism For The Discovery Of New Voices And New Talent.

I Look At Going To Hollywood As Going Behind Enemy Lines. You Parachute In, Set Up The Explosion, Then Fly Out Before It Goes Off.

The Measure Of Our Success Will Be The Condition On Which We Leave The World For The Next Generation.