Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've learned a lot during the years. The weather this time of year is always unpredictable. One weekend will be real pretty and then festival weekend it can rain and turnout will be down. Overall we have been lucky with the weather. People have really supported us.

You can have them all without the festival being an out-and-out market. Even a smattering of the possibility of a market presence is significant.

With all the festivals out there in the world today, everyone is here.

We don't see the festival as an end-point for these shows, ... It's a launching pad, a stepping stone for productions.

Adele

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

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.

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.

The soldiers from Plant City, I know, held their own Strawberry Festival in Kuwait last year, just so it would feel more like home.

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

The National Folk Festival is a brand-new festival every year.

Deepa Mehta

And then it wouldn't be opening the Toronto film festival and it wouldn't be opening around the world.

Jennifer Cox

Right now the festival is in what? Four weeks?

Tilda Swinton

Don't you think... the festival has, I don't know, gone a little funny this year?

Seymour Cassel

The whole idea of a festival to me is that filmmakers get to interact. You see someone strolling, you get to meet them and tell them you like their work, you admire their story.

Elijah Wood

This festival is amazing. I've wanted to come here for so long, and to be here for just a night is torture.

This festival had been a goal of the Village for quite some time. Without Seton Hall, however, they just didn't have the means to make it happen.

It's a festival that very much kind of underscores for me what independent film-making is,

As the festival grows each year, we try hard to keep intimacy at the heart of it.

At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.

Elliott Carter

The Royal Festival Hall, I don't know whether it was 80 or 70, gave a whole festival of my music there with orchestra and everything. String quartets.

Robert Niro

We had thought of doing a film festival before, and if there was ever a time to do it, after 9/11 was it. I hope at this point we've accomplished our goals and made a contribution.

Kacey Musgraves

When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.

Mikey Way

Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes.

For people who have never experienced the Kwanzaa festival in the past, I can't think of a better year to take that step forward. Upon their arrival, they will be immersed in a very positive energy, and they will feel good from the inside.

Jesse Eisenberg

It's a very strange experience to watch yourself in a movie anyway. I most frequently don't do it, but if I was going to do it, I would do it in a private way, not at a public screening at a film festival, which is just an overwhelming experience.

Jean Reno

I see most of my movies at festivals.

Michelle Monaghan

I really love the festival circuit.

Everyone always says they need to have something to do in January. A film festival seemed like a fun thing.

It was always a music festival to us.

It's going to grow. Most festivals take three to five years to get there,

It's really great to have the festival here in my hometown,