The theme of the festival is don’t sit around waiting to be discovered, … Go out and do something. We felt like if we can demonstrate what we did in a week with $250, what...

We learned our first lesson on Monday night, … Everyone sat down to watch the day’s first dailies, and the first 10 minutes of the tape was black. No one checked to see if it...

First-time filmmakers have so many mistakes, digital video will allow you to go try something and if it doesn’t work, you can do it again,

It’s going to be a huge destabilizing force to the studios,

But with digital technology, it will really shift the power.

We’re worried. We don’t know what’s gonna happen.

I think it’s safe to say it’s the only time any kind of film has been made at a film festival and premiered at the same festival,

We got great help throughout Austin with hotels, landmarks, the airport, … Everyone sort of worked together, waived their fees.

It’s going to bring filmmaking to people who have an original voice who could never have the exposure to film, … parts of the country where you don’t have film equipment and movies being shot...