Festivals Quotes · Page 6

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

— Bruce Dickinson

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

— Gregory Harrison

I go to my fair share of festivals and gigs and I know that there are great musical talents out there.

— Rhod Gilbert

“Humanity is the festival, occasions are garments, love is my homeland, heart is my parliament.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Grime's always been big at festivals. Grime's always had an underground crew.

— Big Narstie

There are a lot more variables with festivals than just playing in a venue.

— Natalie Prass

Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes.

— Mikey Way

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

— Trent Reznor

From the perspective of being a filmmaker, you're just really grateful for festivals. A lot of movies won't even be seen if…

— Kelly Reichardt

When I first saw The Black Kat Boppers I was sat on a hill at a festival and could hear this music…

— Paul Simonon

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our…

— Graham Greene

As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that's what I was born to do. I'm an entertainer, hopefully…

— Michael Gira

Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon…

— George Wein

That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a…

— Pauline Oliveros

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was…

— Takeshi Kitano

Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around…

— Austin Peck

I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced…

— John Lithgow

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities. Especially for independent…

— Haile Gerima

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on…

— Paulo Coelho

My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You're treated like a second-class citizen…

— Terry Zwigoff

A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched…

— Christopher Hitchens

Sectarian political festivals are not the way Londoners want their money to be spent. Most of us, I suspect, just want to…

— Munira Mirza

I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read…

— Ian Doescher

There are so many fun charity festivals in the Hamptons. We enjoy so many fun events for kids such as Kidsfest. We…

— Kelly Rutherford

Reporting on great bands at the festivals throughout the summer is probably my favourite part of the year.

— Edith Bowman

In terms of film festivals, Cannes is the greatest launch pad.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

Stay well away from the enemies of Allâh during their festivals.

— Umar

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

— Narendra Modi

I don't like going to movie theaters or festivals. I even get freaked out at other people's shows.

— Dominic Fike

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

— Evan Sayet

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

— Bjork

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

— Mustard

Film festivals give less of a platform to mainstream films because they already have a market.

— Vetrimaaran

We've played quite a few festivals now. We can take care of it, no matter where we are.

— Aldous Harding

I have seen many festival films and I will be blunt, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' was ready for festivals.

— Shoojit Sircar

I go to music festivals, and people want to talk to me about racism. I'm like, 'Bro, I'm trying to have fun!'

— Daniel Kaluuya

I'm extremely grateful that a lot of my films are presented at festivals.

— Stacy Martin

I always celebrate festivals - whether it's Holi or Diwali.

— Kartik Aaryan

Festivals are a time to play the songs people know and are looking forward to hearing.

— Scott Hutchison

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

— Tom Hooper