Festival Quotes

Sundance is like a genre.

— Jon Watts

Happy deepavali to all.

— Subhananda

ENJOY THE HOLI

— KEVIN

Happy holi to everyone

— Anonymous

My family used to put on a small folk festival.

— Aldous Harding

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

— Helen Keller

I met Xavier Rudd at a surf festival in England.

— Ben Howard

“Humanity is the festival, occasions are garments.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Our crowds are very festival-type crowds.

— Steve Harwell

“Christmas is a happy festival.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Every film you see at a festival teaches you something.

— Mani Ratnam

“Anyone for a Film Festival?:”

— Jerome Pitt

Burning Man is a crowning achievement of freedom in festival culture.

— Alex Grey

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

— Noah Baumbach

One of the nicest things to do in Kingston on a Sunday is eat johnnycake, Festival and fish at Hellshire Beach.

— Rita Marley

“It was a festival of maternal love, all day, every day.”

— Amy Bloom

I once went to Alba, Italy, during their white truffle festival, and I was like, 'Just leave me here!'

— Amber Valletta

I always try to be myself, be it a festival crowd or my own crowd.

— Jade Bird

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival.

— Trent Reznor

There isn't that big a vibe around Diwali in Mumbai. Over there its Ganpati Visarjan, which is quite huge.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when…

— Simon McBurney

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival…

— Gary Clark, Jr

Diwali is really a happy time. It's a festival of lights. That's the only time when the entire family comes together and…

— Shamita Shetty

What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are…

— Russell Smith

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't…

— Tony Blackburn

[Sundance is] giving people a chance - many first-time filmmakers. It carries that weight - if you bring something here, people connect…

— Elijah Wood

One thing we've always wanted to do is just do things our way, and we've always talked about having our own festival.

— Shawn Crahan

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are…

— Lynn Shelton

When you go to Cannes, people are there to fight, to scream - like football, the World Cup. Once I was working…

— Gaspar Noe

First, I only get earthen lamps during Diwali, and I urge everyone to do so, so that people who make these diyas…

— Sangram Singh

Every year in Edinburgh, I end up waiting behind the curtain about to go on stage, and I have a moment of…

— James Acaster

Specially for you- *BUMPER DIWALI OFFER* send me a beautiful sms & win: 1) 25 Lacs ki car ka photo. 2) 29…

— Sudip Kshetri

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter…

— Steve James

Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie…

— Mathieu Amalric

I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to…

— Natalie Jeremijenko

I celebrate Holi each year with Rubina and our friends.

— Abhinav Shukla

Life is a festival only to the wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yeah, I love festivals, man.

— Dizzee Rascal

Sometimes success is just limited to festival circuit.

— John Legend