Sundance Quick Quote: Spike Lee discovers crowd funding with the help of his students at NYU

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In this Jan. 25, 2015 photo, writer-director Spike Lee poses for a portrait to promote the film, "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus", at the Eddie Bauer Adventure House during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)

PARK CITY, Utah – “I’m a professor of film in the graduate film school NYU and my students were the ones who introduced me to crowdfunding, crowd sourcing. I had never heard of Indiegogo. I’d never heard of Kickstarter until they told me this is how they were financing their films.”

— Spike Lee on what he’s learning from his students about filmmaking.

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— Ryan Pearson, www.twitter.com/Ryanwrd .

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