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

— Abel Ferrara

Film festivals is a great way to display good cinema.

— Ravi Kishan

Film festivals are a great vehicle for gaining an audience for your film, for exposure for the talent in the film and for the…

— Jamie Hector

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

— Anna Boden

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

— Kelly Reichardt

When you go to a film festival as an audience member, it's so much fun. But when you bring your own film there, you…

— Mora Stephens

People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting, because it's like you're going…

— Dito Montiel

When you make a film and it wins some award at a very select, very difficult festival such as Cannes, it's good for your…

— Rithy Panh

Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.

— Farhan Akhtar

Film festivals are usually unpleasant experiences on some level. The lines are ridiculous, the crowds are ridiculous, or the schedules are impossibly arranged: 'You…

— Yance Ford

It's a reality of film festivals that you can't see everything. You're dividing your time between seeing films and utilizing that unique space to…

— Thom Powers

I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I…

— Tilda Swinton