Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cronenberg

There is no point in going to Cannes if you're not going to be in competition. That's my feeling. So you've got to get into it.

David Alan Basche

When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.

Eric Fellner

I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd.

Luke Evans

To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant.

Luciano Vincenzoni

I have written movies that won prizes at Cannes and Venice.

Alice Temperley

Red carpet dressing all depends on the climate. I think richer, deeper colours are more flattering on the body, but the opposite is true if you are in Cannes or St. Tropez where the light makes deep colours look heavy and unflattering.

Tabatha Coffey

I love the Cannes Film Festival. From the lavish parties and events to the red carpet attire, this star-studded week-long event is where I get a lot of inspiration for hair and fashion.

Ryan Coogler

In 2009, I went to Cannes with a short film in the Kodak emerging program at the American Pavilion.

Matt Daniels

We've done nine film festivals since then, taken the movie to Cannes and the Edinburgh Film Festival and it had it's US premier a couple of weeks ago,

Maynard Webb

Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it's not how people meet their destiny. It's time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, 'how can I do both?' And, then, we can find solutions.

Amy McNamara

We have informed consumers, and they're choosing to take the mode of transportation that is not only the most enjoyable to them but also the most protective of park resources.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Many of these games are made for adults, and choosing games that are appropriate for kids should be a decision made by their parents,

Christopher Miller

Seven out of 10 taxpayers will be able to electronically file for free by going to IRS.gov and choosing Free File.

Chen Huiqin

Funds are choosing to lock in their profits after decent gains recently and more profit-taking will likely occur in coming sessions.

Sven Eriksson

I think the fans must have had a very hard time choosing because we are lucky enough to have a number of really outstanding individual players.

Carlisle Floyd

I was choosing a subject matter that tries to depict the period more accurately, rather than the history-book version we have come to believe.

Som Dasgupta

What you're seeing right now is that private equity investors, corporations as well as institutional equity investors are all picking and choosing through equity assets,

Mahmoud Othman

I expect that there still will be difficulties over choosing the prime minister.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

Walter Elmore

There is no point having a festival in a town where you can't get the support needed to make it a success.

Amy Turner

When I got the project, it seemed to make a lot of sense to put the festival on Gold Avenue,

Dawn Taubin

September is the new October. Everything is moving up in the year, and Toronto is the right festival at the right time.

Shelly King

We want to make sure this festival doesn't lose that community-service feel.

Marco Muller

We want to make sure the festival gives top visibility to its movies and to the people who made them.

Brian Setzer

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

Brian Henson

we sent a troupe to Edinborough, and then in Edinborough, there was a producer from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, so we went to Melbourne. So it's one of these shows that kind of organically developed and it started developing momentum way before I even thought there was a show here.

Piers Handling

French films are increasingly taking pride of place. The number of French films at the Festival is second only to the US and Canada.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

Charles Dickens

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

Charles Dickens

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

Charles Caleb Colton

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Dickens

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Dickens

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

Charles Stuart Calverley

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.