Audience Quote by Thom Powers

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

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

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

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

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

Film festivals is a great way to display good cinema.

— Ravi Kishan

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

You show a movie to your friends when you're working on it, but you don't have any real objectivity. You just don't know. So…

— Jeff Baena

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

— Farhan Akhtar

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

In an old model, the way a film would imprint itself on the public's consciousness is to get a theatrical run. But now there…

— Thom Powers

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