Festivals Quotes

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

Wagner festival was [Adolf Hitler] time with the Wagner family. [Eva Braun] asked once to attend but he forbade it and that was that, she never asked again.

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?

I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.

I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.

For me, my taste is all over the place, so the festival is the perfect match for me because I can hit, again, Against Me! and SZA, all those different genres and the experience is awesome.

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

My daughter Cosma is a very popular actress in Germany. She also organizes these wonderful open-air parties. She has a wonderful teacher, she's very smart. And I sometimes perform at her festivals.

Festivals are a time to play the songs people know and are looking forward to hearing.

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

Beach balls at festivals are the work of the devil.

I see most of my movies at festivals.

I love the outdoor festival feeling.

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.

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

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

Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman [John] Lewis at a book festival.

Festivals are unique. They can be the best of times or the worst. You're not playing to the converted. But those are the best shows - to see if you can make new friends and entertain them.

All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.

People are going to be seeing me a lot everywhere: TVs, music, movies, festivals. You name it, I'm gonna be there.

All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's how locked down TV is.

I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

When there are rock festivals where there are sometimes 120,000 people and they're all sold out and they're epic, I think rock is alive and well, and hopefully it stays that way.

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.

Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.

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.

Festivals are always fun. I went to a lot when I was younger and had money to go to them. I like playing at festivals. They're always kind of like a big, crazy circus.

People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting, because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

I have little art piece, a kind of short film thing I filmed with my friend. It's going to be 20 minutes, and we're going to submit it into festivals but also going to art galleries.

Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.

We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

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

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.

You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.

A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future

some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

To just write one song to then go and play huge festivals all around the world it's exciting and it's never really been the case.

When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people.

Sometimes success is just limited to festival circuit.

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.