- Robert Redford: Why are we here? We provide the opportunity. We provide the sense of place.
- Robert Redford: And we're about development and we're about connections and we're about support.
- Jennifer Sorenson: Who thought of putting of freakin' film festival in the middle of sub-zero weather? Brilliant!
- Chazz Palminteri: Independent Filmmaking... is the Art and the Soul of what we do. Independent films pushes the envelope and that's what we have to do.
- Bill Jacobson: Independence is basically independent of everything.
- Bill Jacobson: In terms of film, you come up with your own money; you don't borrow money from other people, because then now, they are subject to influencing your project.