Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the world and around the country and locally and puts them all in the one spot together, and that's what a lot of the world's great writers' festivals do.
I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.
On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.
For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work.
If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.
There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.
Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.