Audience Quote by 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

In a film festival, people come to watch because they are interested in cinema. It's not like watching a premiere show or being in…

— Suhasini Maniratnam

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

Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience…

— Abbas Kiarostami

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

It's great to meet people in a setting where it's really conducive to hanging out and having fun. Most film festivals are really low-stress,…

— Joe Swanberg

Film fests are an opportunity to see different kinds of films that you usually don't get to watch. When I'm part of a jury,…

— Mani Ratnam

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

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

— Melanie Lynskey

When I'm watching one of my movies in a festival with fans who are just into it and they love it? I end up…

— Takashi Miike

Festivals are where I see other peoples' films, where we talk, where I get to learn what was working about the film, I get…

— Debra Granik

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