Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
David K Shipler
I did a picture I loved called Time After Time (1979), and the people who saw it loved it. We had a big opening in Toronto at the Festival of Festivals - huge - and they gave us a fabulous reception. Great city, Toronto - Mary (Mary Steenburgen) and I lov...
Malcolm McDowell
I never applied to go back to Cuba. They did invite me to the Havana Film Festival, but I am opposed to the regime in Cuba. I`d have liked to go back every day of my life. But in honor of all the people who have died and suffered under that regime, I`m no...
Andy Garcia
While accepting his Director of the Year award for Sideways (2004) at the Palm Spring Film Festival: "I thank you for this award, though I think there may be a problem with a world in which making small, human and humorous films is `an achievement.` It sh...
Alexander Payne
You get these horrifying straight-to-video things for very little money, then you go to the Cannes Film Festival and they got some poster of you, 40ft high, in the worst movie in the world. You`re like, Oh my God. Take the fucking thing down!"`
Michael Madsen
Toronto has such a nice balance as far as the films they show there. They kind of give an opportunity to everybody. You get the best of the best there. It`s a good standard to be held up against, and it`s very flattering to be in that festival.
Cameron Diaz
In the beginning I believed in Cannes, but now it`s just for publicity. People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days t...
Jean-Luc Godard
At the Cannes Film Festival in 1979: "We`re on the brink of something new. It will be similar to the invention of the American musical in the thirties. There will be a conceptualized, musical-video product and everyone`s waiting for the first Sergeant Pep...
Pete Townshend
[during his opening-night address at the Sundance Film Festival, claiming U.S. politicians exploited public support of invasions] We put all our concerns on hold to let the leaders lead. I think we`re owed a big, massive apology.
Robert Redford
On his most memorable money mistake: "When I was a young actor at Canada`s Stratford Festival, one of the older actors told me that Canadian uranium is the future and you must buy into it. So I bought it on Thursday with the entire $500 I had saved. The f...
William Shatner
A festival of puerile self-importance, intense paranoia, fiddled expenses and brilliant creativity. On his time with British current-affairs TV-programme `World in Action`.
Paul Greengrass
On being at the Cannes Film Festival opening of "Breaking the Waves" without the film`s director, Lars von Trier: "It was a bit of a baptism of fire, because I had never done any press before. I had never done a single interview in my life. I had never ma...
Emily Watson
Ever since I went to the Cannes festival, the media overseas really encouraged me to consider the possibilities of working in the West. Then I got a call from some people who worked in the business in America, who asked me to first obviously get an agent ...
Aishwarya Rai
[on the legendary Woodstock Festival] I didn`t want to be part of that thing. I liked the town. I felt they exploited the shit out of that, going up there and getting 15 million people all in the same spot. That don`t excite me. The flower generation - is...
Bob Dylan
The director`s cut is a lot closer to what premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Then the movie didn`t sell for four months, and all the sudden the movie is STV, going straight to video, and it`s going to debut on the STARZ! Network. ...... at this point I...
Richard Kelly
[on the Cannes Film Festival] My idea of hell. You see all the people you thought were dead and all the people who deserve to be dead. After a while, you start to think you might be dead, too.
Dirk Bogarde
If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I`d like that. I`ve never been to a festival. I`m a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa`s squishy. Maybe too squishy - it`s hard to get up sometimes.
Martin Freeman
The word "career" scares me! It`s the sort of thing you say about dead actors, old guys. I think this festival wanted to do a retrospective on me a few years ago and I told them to fuck off. Jesus, that`s for guys that are on crutches and in wheelchairs a...
Michael Ironside
[On the importance of the Toronto Film Festival for smaller films]: If people, critics respond to the film there [Toronto Film Festival], it starts a nice little wave of chat, which for a movie like North Country (2005) is really important. It`s one of th...
Charlize Theron
[On the importance of the Toronto Film Festival for smaller films]: If people, critics respond to the film there [Toronto Film Festival], it starts a nice little wave of chat, which for a movie like North Country (2005) is really important. It`s one of th...
Charlize Theron
(On receiving a film festival award while pregnant) I am three times the girl I used to be. This is the second red carpet where I didn`t have to think about sucking in my stomach - because I can`t!
Halle Berry
Speaking at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival about filmmaker Michael Moore: "Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary."
Jean-Luc Godard
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 opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
Elvis Costello
Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.
Allen Holmes
What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don`t have any news on that. It`s already been on Paramount actually, but as it`s on Paramount it`ll probably be on several more times... hopefully.
Jo Brand
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
David K Shipler
