Word: rr
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...RR:I don?t know what to say about one. I don?t want any part of that one. I can barely last through the festival, it?s a pretty exhausting place...
...RR:That?s an old cry. Basically they use the word Hollywood. Hollywood is a business and a very good one. I think it just says Hollywood recognized something of value and it came to Sundance. Once the product began to outperform some of the big blockbuster films in the marketplace it drew even more attention to the festival, and films that came through our festivals as straight independent films got purchased and went into the mainstream and performed very well. Furthermore, whatever films go in that direction there?s always going to be a new batch of films that...
...RR:Well that?s why I don?t get anxious about that. The point of it all was to create opportunities for the filmmakers and that?s happened. So if they get their work sold, great. In the end the choice is not ours, the choice is the filmmaker?s and the public?s as to what they want to do with it all. As long as we keep producing new, fresh, work; which we will...
...RR:The face of Sundance, perhaps, because I started it but I think the festival has its own face now, it doesn?t need mine anymore to tell the story or to promote it. It?s self-sustaining, it?s self-generating. It doesn?t need me to be a front person for it. The role I enjoy playing most is the creative, in programming the festival or working on how we are going to present the panels. Or looking to the future, how it?s going to grow...
...RR:I am. I certainly think we played a role in establishing a new category, and I new opportunity...