Quotes of: Film-festival Keyword

Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and ...

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

Anurag Kashyap

That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go...

John Polson

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

Leslie Caron

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

Willem Dafoe

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

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 ...

Hayden Panettiere

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

Guy Pearce

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.

Takeshi Kitano

It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like 'The Raid' and to read the rave reviews in a number of film festivals.

Joe Taslim

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

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

Olivia Wilde

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

Abel Ferrara

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

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

Lars von Trier

Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

Melanie Lynskey

To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant.

Luke Evans

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 Re...

Saffron Burrows