Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

We now have our own shaded pavilion and are well liked by the visitors and the Renaissance Festival employees.

I went to a festival pretending to work as a journalist to get free tickets and interview people I really admired. I remember one of these people was Guillermo del Toro.

Part of the fun of going to a film festival is the serendipity of it.

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.

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.

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.

We'll have a bang-up festival next year. Not that this one won't be great.

Gavin Bryars

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Deepa Mehta

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

As director, I am devastated. Michael Shaw is a friend of this museum and has been a guest at the Judy Garland Festival for years. It is our hope that the slippers can be recovered immediately.

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

Jennifer Cox

Right now the festival is in what? Four weeks?

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.

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.

This is a winter festival and, Katrina aside, Mother Nature has as much to say about turnout as New Orleans.

It was always a music festival to us.

Gerard Way

Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks

Elton John

I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary.

Jean Reno

I see most of my movies at festivals.

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

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

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.

Jacki Weaver

When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off to the cinema to watch an Esther Williams festival - my greatest wish if I get to Hollywood is to meet her.

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.

The festival is as much a celebration of the readers as of the authors,

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