Film Festivals Quotes

• The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

  Keanu Reeves

  Art, Hymns, Humanity

  "'Matrix Reloaded' previews at Cannes". www.cnn.com. May 13, 2003.

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• I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I don't believe that they are, I believe that film festivals are about film audiences, and about giving an audience the encouragement to feel really empowered and to stretch the elastic of their taste.

  Tilda Swinton

  Encouragement, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Film festivals are a great vehicle for gaining an audience for your film, for exposure for the talent in the film and for the film makers to leverage opportunities for their films. I love the energy that film festivals bring.

  Jamie Hector

  Opportunity, Energy, Festivals

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  Christina Aguilera

  Funny, Movie, Stupid

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

  Willem Dafoe

  Ideas, Festivals, Levels

  "From Jesus to Antichrist". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2009.

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

  Abel Ferrara

  Festivals, Want, Film

  "Abel Ferrara on 'Go Go Tales'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com.

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• If you go to a film festival and watch a bunch of features and then watch a bunch of shorts, you will almost always find that the shorts are where people are taking more risks and pushing more boundaries...simply because they have much less to lose.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  People, Risk, Pushing

  Source: www.cutprintfilm.com

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• It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

  Noah Baumbach

  New York, Real, Special

  "'Frances Ha' At New York Film Festival: Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach Bring Their 'Pop Song' To New York" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2012.

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• I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.

  Karen Allen

  Independent, Years, Watches

  "Karen Allen on The Sandlot, liking the fourth Indiana Jones, and being typecast". Interview with Pete Croatto, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2016.

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• I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn't pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.

  Jason Reitman

  Years, Daddy, One Day

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

  Tom Hooper

  Directors, Festivals, Irony

  "The Real Events That Tom Hooper Didn't Include in The Danish Girl, and Why". Interview with Maggie Panos, www.popsugar.com. January 5, 2016.

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• A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Beautiful, Believe, Kids

  Interview with Tim Ryan, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 15, 2010.

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• The really cool thing is all about being able to take your movie around and show it. It puts you in direct contact with people who are like-minded and interested in similar things. I think the film festival circuit has certainly helped to foster the community.

  Joe Swanberg

  Thinking, People, Community

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn’t trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.

  Ethan Hawke

  Art, Dying, Trying

  "Toolkit | Meet the Woodstock Film Festival Programmers (In Their Own Words)" by Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. June 24, 2011.

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• 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.

  Thom Powers

  Unique, Reality, Space

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Jobs, Years, People

  Source: collider.com

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• [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.

  Rudolf Buitendach

  People, Littles, Festivals

  Source: variety.com

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• It's a very strange experience to watch yourself in a movie anyway. I most frequently don't do it, but if I was going to do it, I would do it in a private way, not at a public screening at a film festival, which is just an overwhelming experience.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Watches, Festivals, Way

  "Richard Ayoade and Jesse Eisenberg on Dostoyevsky and Doppelgänger". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 23, 2014.

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• The quality and success of Disney was actually bad for us animators because everyone on the planet thought that animation was only for kids and only in a certain domain. The big film festivals never thought much about animated films.

  Michel Ocelot

  Kids, Quality, Festivals

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.

  Mora Stephens

  Fun, Stress, Festivals

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• 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.

  Ava DuVernay

  Jobs, Television, Festivals

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Truman Capote

  Cannes Film Festival, Festivals, Mets

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• There's a film there in competition [of Sundance Film Festival] called To The Bone. It's directed by Marti Noxon. I have a supporting role in it. It got really well received. It's a really great film.

  Keanu Reeves

  Competition, Roles, Festivals

  Source: lrmonline.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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• This January, Kevin Costner will be honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival for his contribution to film. This gives Costner just two months to make a contribution to film.

  Tina Fey

  Spring, Two, Giving

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