Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

Daniel Stern

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.

Ivan Reitman

A lot of movies at this festival were struggling to find distributors, ... This film was fortunate enough to find more than its share.

Takeshi Kitano

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.

Gavin Bryars

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

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,

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

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.

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

Jennifer Cox

Right now the festival is in what? Four weeks?

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.

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

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.

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,

Tilda Swinton

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Adele

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

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

Tom Hooper

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

Rico Love

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.