Cannes Quotes

• So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

  Christina Aguilera

  Funny, Movie, Stupid

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• Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

  Lili Taylor

  Strange Places, Cynical, Trying

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• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  Salma Hayek

  Cannes Film Festival, Directors, Female

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• When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.

  Monica Bellucci

  Boring

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• I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

  Georgina Chapman

  Cannes Film Festival, Festivals, Glamorous

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• You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Tired, People, Fairytale

  "Marjane Satrapi, writer and director: My Cannes". www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2010.

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• I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

  William Hurt

  America, Challenges, Toronto

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• I don't believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don't want to win anything or lose anything.

  Woody Allen

  Believe, Winning, Competition

  "Woody Allen Discusses "Match Point"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. December 20, 2005.

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• The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Cannes Film Festival, Political, Different

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• I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Impact, Feelings, Would Be

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Costumes, Bees, Ridiculous

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• The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Thinking, Firsts, First Time

  "Brigitte Bardot on Cannes, celebrity and career". www.cnn.com. May 24, 2007.

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• Sooner or later, all games become serious.

  J. G. Ballard

  Hippie, Games, Serious

  "Super-Cannes". Book by J. G. Ballard, 2000.

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• This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the barrier of normality by someone who feels that the possibilities of cinema have not been exhausted by conventional realist drama.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Drama, Different, Cinema

  "Cannes 2012: Holy Motors - review" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.

  Berenice Bejo

  Scripts, Interest

  "The Artist is a once in a lifetime event for us" by Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2012.

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• If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, its silly.

  Mathieu Amalric

  Silly, Sense Of Humor, Approach

  The Hollywood Reporter interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I really understood what was happening in Cannes. I was in a restaurant during a break and when I came out 2 hours later, 500 people were waiting for me at the exit. It was total chaos. They literally had to carry me to the car.

  Robert Pattinson

  People, Car, Waiting

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• People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Years, Cannes Film Festival, People

  "Cinema is over". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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

  Robert Englund

  Venice, World, Festivals

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every year there's a jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Getting on the jury is very competitive in France. Not because the French love cinema, but because they love to judge.

  Craig Ferguson

  Years, Cannes Film Festival, Judging

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• 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.

  Taika Waititi

  Thinking, Festivals, Suits

  Source: collider.com

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• Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

  Roger Ebert

  Cannes Film Festival, Satanic, Festivals

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.145, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Speaks French, Looks

  "The Luck of the Bodkins". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1935.

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• Rome was not built in one day.

  John Heywood

  Rome, Progress, One Day

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.223

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• If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.

  J. G. Ballard

  Weekend, Play, Eden

  J. G. Ballard (2010). “Super-Cannes: A Novel”, p.99, Macmillan

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