Quotes About Festivals

Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit films, and if they are good enough, they play. The only barrier to entry is the submission fee.

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.

At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone is doing. it's really fun and awesome that we're the only girls, because we can tackle issues that guys can't sing about.

We are working on organising classical music festivals in a bid to promote qawwali there and produce films that promote music. Perhaps people lack the talent as yet, but at least there's a stable platform available to promote this as an art form.

I find it funny how at British festivals there are such inflated egos. It's rare that I even talk to anyone at a lot of them.

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

Eure Lippen haben sich gestreift, sind auseinander dann, Als sei euer Anteil am Glück bereits verbraucht und als hättet ihr Angst, vom Glück der anderen schon zu kosten. Ihr wart unschuldig? Wovor hat Unschuld je bewahrt? Selbst der Schöpfer sagt uns, wir sollen zu Festen Lämmer schlachten, Nie aber Wölfe...

The '80s don't seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we're off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000 people with a load of other '80s acts. It was just such a great era for music, for individuals and characters. It just had a spirit.

The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes till they begin to drop off. They are healthy and hardy; even the women can carry weights of sixty pounds over the passes. They attain extreme old age; their voices are harsh and loud, and their laughter is noisy and hearty.

We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.

Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with.

Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.

Out on the West Coast, I learned to snowboard in Whistler, and I've been to festivals in British Columbia, and played in Toronto so many times I can't remember each one. Montreal too, is just one of my favourite cities on earth. I've played in Calgary, Winnipeg, Saskatoon.

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

I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.

I really like small, intimate shows, but there's nothing like playing at a festival. It's a completely different experience. Everyone is just a little more primal; they can get away with more things.

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.

At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.

When I think about myself as a teenager going to festivals, you look to the main stage as the main entertainment of the night.

It is at programmes organised on the sidelines of temple festivals that you get to see raw audiences who will let you know immediately whether the act has clicked or not. It was those audiences who taught me how to strike a rapport with the audience.

The great festivals of Light— Solstice, Hannukah and Christmas— Beckon us to gather round and witness the birth of love within one another.

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

I'm a huge festival fan. I love to dance and dance all night long.

I don't ever want to play a festival again, period.