There's a lot of hyperventilation that takes off before the [Sundance Film] Festival, a lot of buzz. Every year we hear, this is going to be the new this, this is going to be the new that, and it never is. The buzz just doesn't mean anything. I'm glad it doesn't. Because I think the festival shows that what succeeds is content.

Other people have analysis. I have Utah.

[Making Ordinary People] was a wonderful experience. Tremendous. I haven't seen it since. It belongs to the public now; it no longer really belongs to me.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

I can't watch completed films - my wife makes fun of me.

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.