Tom Rhodes Quotations

I think it's safe to say it's the only time any kind of film has been made at a film festival and premiered at the same festival,

We learned our first lesson on Monday night, ... Everyone sat down to watch the day's first dailies, and the first 10 minutes of the tape was black. No one checked to see if it was recording correctly.

We're worried. We don't know what's gonna happen.

We got great help throughout Austin with hotels, landmarks, the airport, ... Everyone sort of worked together, waived their fees.

First-time filmmakers have so many mistakes, digital video will allow you to go try something and if it doesn't work, you can do it again,

The theme of the festival is don't sit around waiting to be discovered, ... Go out and do something. We felt like if we can demonstrate what we did in a week with $250, what could other filmmakers do if they actually planned and prepared?

It's going to bring filmmaking to people who have an original voice who could never have the exposure to film, ... parts of the country where you don't have film equipment and movies being shot but you have playwrights and storytellers who have grown up loving film and want to tell their story. I think you'll get a fresh new round of stories.

It's going to be a huge destabilizing force to the studios,

But with digital technology, it will really shift the power.