Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Lamb

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

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

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

Let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths

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.

Garry Kasparov

I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.

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

We're having such a good time here. We have taken this film to a number of festivals and this is our favorite.

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

Adele

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

There are as many festivals as there are mosquitoes after a rain.

We don't know how good we have it, having a festival like this to come to. It is a learning experience, as well as a competition.

We work hard to have the festival back every year.

Abel Ferrara

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

E. B. White

One of the (high school) teachers had been to the Fringe festival and she told me about it, ... I thought it sounded like a great idea.

Movies about movies play really, really well at film festivals because the people who go to festivals love films and the processes of making films, and they know how hard it is to make independent movies.

Douglas Booth

I'm a huge festival fan. I love to dance and dance all night long.

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

Courtney Barnett

When I was a teen, or like 18 to early 20s, I used to go to festivals all the time. I'd save all my money.

Karl Liebknecht

Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.

David Lambert

He mentioned it six months ago, and I thought it was a great idea. Natchez is a great walking town, so it's a great place for a festival like this.

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,

I wouldn't say we're the most important Latino film festival in the country, but we have improved our quality year after year.

Anurag Kashyap

In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.

This should be a very relaxing event. Not one of those festivals with a lot of noise and confusion.

Jonathan Sacks

What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.

While the gay life is often glorified in 'pride' festivals and through the media, we offer a distinctly different message -- one of hope and healing for those who don't share that sense of pride. I and thousands of others know firsthand that there is a way out of unwanted homosexuality.

We perceive Toronto as the festival that has the widest brim. We try to fit as much under this umbrella as we can.

The original focus was on the river. But with the festival taking place during spring migration, we knew we need to include the birds.

When I saw the film at the Palm Springs Film Festival in January, people were literally applauding between sets of music in the movie.

William Miller

This year's festival has the rock stars of writing.