Best Festival Quotations
221 Festival quotes by 187 unique authors
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Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was…
— Ray Wylie Hubbard
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Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto…
— Pat Conroy
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I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
— Leslie Caron
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I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other…
— Bob Odenkirk
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When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down…
— Alexander Skarsgard
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I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail…
— Wendy Liebman
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A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.
— John Steinbeck
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The first time I came to the Comedy Festival some nutcase shot a bunch of people in Tasmania. I thought, 'Oh, that's just Tasmania.' The…
— Rich Hall
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I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti…
— Saffron Burrows
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I'm just gonna make movies the best I can, do the festival thing or whatever can come. I plan on working with a lot of…
— Evan Glodell
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I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.
— Robert Englund
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
— Abel Ferrara
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I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a…
— Ethan Hawke
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Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.
— Gregory Harrison
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As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be…
— Bong Joon-ho
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna…
— Gary Clark, Jr.
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One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear.…
— Rajneesh
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I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course…
— Takeshi Kitano
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
— Lars von Trier
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In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a…
— Joseph Jarman
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The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.
— Joseph Jarman
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Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured.
— Luci Swindoll
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The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it…
— Pierre de Coubertin
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You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that…
— Elvis Costello
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