Festivals Quotes · Page 5

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

— Rhys Darby

I think the most valuable thing that we've done at festivals is meet other filmmakers.

— Anna Boden

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

— Leslie Caron

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

— Rabindranath Tagore

All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.

— Anthony Kiedis

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

— Meg White

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

— Georgina Chapman

I used to hold Stanley Kubrick film festivals at my house in high school. These are not cool things.

— Sam Esmail

some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass…

— Helen Gurley Brown

You don't do slow songs at festivals unless they're No1 hits and everyone knows every lyric. They all need to be upbeat.

— Griff

A very important part of writing for children is appearing at book festivals, and in libraries and schools. An important part of…

— Michael Rosen

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So…

— Michel Ocelot

My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the…

— Neon Hitch

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the…

— Graham Coxon

I know sometimes when I go to a convention or a film festival occasionally people bring me really valuable and really rare…

— Robert Englund

When it's your own thing there's a lot more pressure to make it awesome, since these people bought tickets specifically for you.…

— Flume

I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more…

— Vikas Swarup

About my work, my first film, Écoute le Temps (Fissures), was positioned by distributors as a thriller because they thought that it…

— Alante Kavaite

Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a…

— Hermann Hesse

Sometimes during a show or a film, while you're shooting it, you'll think, "This is great, it's going to be fantastic, the…

— Aidan Turner

We are working on organising classical music festivals in a bid to promote qawwali there and produce films that promote music. Perhaps…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and…

— Elvis Costello

Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way…

— Harold Innis

I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in…

— Agnes Varda

In an old model, the way a film would imprint itself on the public's consciousness is to get a theatrical run. But…

— Thom Powers

There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in…

— Peter Bradshaw

I think festivals are way more easygoing than back-to-back tours are. 'Cause for me, when you get to go to a festival,…

— Zella Day

Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into…

— Guy Maddin

For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

— Rico Love

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

— Tom Hooper

I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

— Lamorne Morris

The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.

— Joseph Jarman

The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals

— Siddharth Katragadda

There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival.

— Tiesto

I have done big festivals all over Europe with hip hops acts and everything else.

— Shakin' Stevens

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

— Wasif Ali Wasif

I started realizing that when I played festivals I didn't want to be writing all these down, sad songs.

— Dean Lewis

Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life;

— Agnivesh

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

— Robert Englund