This year's program reflects all the exceptional qualities we've come to associate with independent film.

It's an independent film-making that is not going to be mistaken by anybody for films that come out of Hollywood.

I think the U.S. was so insular in the 1990s, and I don't know if it was 9/11, but there was something that opened it up.

It's rare that a group of us programmers will walk into a movie and walk out unified in our response.

Come Early Morning. I really admire someone who's willing to take on the kind of role she's willing to take on.

Not at all. Not one piece of me would have said that at any level.