Film Festival Quotes

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
- Christina Aguilera

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.
- Gael Garcia Bernal

A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.
- Connie Britton

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.
- Saffron Burrows

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
- Leslie Caron

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.
- Robert Englund

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

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.
- John Foster

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.
- Ethan Hawke

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

In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film.
- Andrew Mccarthy

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
- Liam Neeson

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.
- Hayden Panettiere

Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.
- Austin Peck

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

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.
- Vincent Schiavelli

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.
- John Schlesinger

I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine.
- Kaya Scodelario

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

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.
- Donnie Yen