Movie Festivals Quotes

I'm a gigantic musical film fan.

I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.

In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film.

Though all festivals are important, this Cannes Festival starts off the season.

I specialize in cool inside movie news. Specifically, the news from movies that excite us fans.

At film festivals, I put on my sunglasses and go to sleep because I don't want to see my films again.

There's so many places, personally, that I would love as a film fan to explore.

I see most of my movies at festivals.

Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies.

I grew up in a film-loving family. We watched the Oscars every year. My favorite thing in the whole world was film. The Oscars obviously was the holy grail.

I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.

I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.