Tom Luddy Quotations

This year we liked a lot of new American films, more than usual.

The talent is at the Venice Film Festival for the world premiere, ... That screening started about an hour ago.

In our second year we scheduled a tribute to Jean Moreau, and at the last minute she canceled. Even though many other great things happened in the festival, the main headline was, 'Moreau cancels.' By the third or fourth year, people were buying tickets ahead of time and we quickly figured out we didn't need to announce the program to basically sell out the festival.

Part of the fun for people now is coming to the festival without knowing what they'll see, and then being surprised. It's part of our signature style.

When they moved up the (Oscar telecast) dates, some distributors started to consider us valuable in the campaign for Oscars. A lot of academy members with second homes in Telluride attend the festival, and many academy members fly in.