Festivals Quotes

There were some things I was going and doing in Europe a little bit. Some festivals that brought me over. That was good. Some touring I did over there. But there was nothing major [from 22 to 29].

We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit.

I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.

We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

We're excited to be appearing in Tel Aviv in the framework of the Pic.nic festival. This is an important tour for us and we're glad that Israel is part of it

I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count -- / Festival of the Souls.

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that's what I was born to do. I'm an entertainer, hopefully in the best sense.

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

I really love the festival circuit.

When you go to a film festival as an audience member, it's so much fun. But when you bring your own film there, you carry so much stress and excitement.

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.

Every year I'm doing different projects, concerts, touring, open-air festivals.

I’ve found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

The Internet right now is another way to get exposure. You depend on that because they give you press, and if it's successful it gets into a lot of festivals.

I stopped my iTunes festival set because someone fainted at the front. It felt like the right thing to do at the time but maybe I was being too sensitive.

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.

When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

I know sometimes when I go to a convention or a film festival occasionally people bring me really valuable and really rare memorabilia that I have never seen before.

I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.

To be honest, I was just honored to be in the same festival [ Raindance Film Festival's ] as Johnny To and Dominik Moll.

[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie ["Selling Isobel"] to anyone, and people are a little bit traumatised by it.

Sin met Mae and Alan coming into the flat. Mae frowned. "Is it no-shirts festival day?" "Every day with Nick is no-shirts festival day," Alan said absently, but he was frowning too.

He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.

I haven't played EDC since 2011. Normally, my sound fits a little bit better in mixed festivals.

I'm looking forward to seeing more of the US, and hopefully spending some of the summer in Europe playing festivals. It's early days though, so who knows.

That's what's nice about playing festivals, too. You're on this huge, enormous stage and you've got 200,000 watts of power blowing your guitars all over the place. It sounds good.

I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.

It's a reality of film festivals that you can't see everything. You're dividing your time between seeing films and utilizing that unique space to have meetings with people that you can't otherwise.

People discover you at festivals. They come to see Coldplay or whoever, and then wander over and catch your act. Festivals make a lot of sense to me.

In New York, I'll walk down the street and someone will say, 'Nice show,' and that's it. If I'm at a food festival, it's open season.

I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

Life is truly lived only when we discover other faiths, festivals, languages and cultures.

I am an Indian and we celebrate all festivals in every region of every religion. That is why it is called Incredible India!

I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.

There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.

It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.

Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.

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