My father is a Japanese-American and my mother is a Caucasian. So obviously, New Year's Day is big for our family, you… — Scott Fujita Copy Share Image
Sectarian political festivals are not the way Londoners want their money to be spent. Most of us, I suspect, just want to… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were… — Mavis Staples Copy Share Image
If you go to a film festival and watch a bunch of features and then watch a bunch of shorts, you will… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write… — Morley Copy Share Image
I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Alan Paul plunges into Chinese life and takes us along for the ride, through vegetable markets, used-car lots, Taoist temples, divey bars,… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
[I would] just stick to the festival as much as possible. Because it's about the music for me, really. [I don't come]… — Chelsea Leyland Copy Share Image
For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pontus, instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God, that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Festivals are always fun. I went to a lot when I was younger and had money to go to them. I like… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future — Harvey Goldsmith Copy Share Image
For me, my taste is all over the place, so the festival is the perfect match for me because I can hit,… — Jennifer Abbott Copy Share Image
I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological… — David Binder Copy Share Image
We seek festivals for two reasons - either to create buzz because it is a small film or to find unexplored markets… — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Some independent Indian films do so well at these festivals in Europe and in the United States that when they come back,… — Arfi Lamba Copy Share Image
The quality and success of Disney was actually bad for us animators because everyone on the planet thought that animation was only… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
But there's more than just solving the how-to problems. I've often said that if we're going to have a real rural renaissance,… — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
The Internet right now is another way to get exposure. You depend on that because they give you press, and if it's… — Philipp Wolter Copy Share Image
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract.… — Adam Green Copy Share Image
When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome.… — Kerry King Copy Share Image
To be honest, I was just honored to be in the same festival [ Raindance Film Festival's ] as Johnny To and Dominik Moll. — Rudolf Buitendach Copy Share Image
It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like 'The Raid' and to read the rave… — Joe Taslim Copy Share Image
“On an average, we celebrate 4-5 festivals per month. There are the major ones like Christmas and Diwali and then there are… — Rachna Singh Copy Share Image
Festivals are unique. They can be the best of times or the worst. You're not playing to the converted. But those are… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image