Top 135 Festivals Quotes

It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like ‘The Raid’ and to read the rave reviews in a number of film festivals.

It doesn’t seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work – what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.

I started doing independent films. My first one was ‘Miss Bala,’ which was very well-received at film festivals.

I personally adore the festival of Dussehra, as its a celebration of our culture and mythological legacy. I celebrate, almost, all my festivals with Life OK, be it Holi or Diwali or Dussehra. It’s like a festive home for me.

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

You can do a small club show and the energy is so contained. Then you play these big festivals, and have 50,000 people waving their hands in the air with you.

I make documentaries. I attend film festivals. I don’t have time to sit at cafes taking selfies.

I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I’m associated with ‘Slumdog Millionaire,’ the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I’m the same person that existed before it.

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

At festivals, you can go a lot bigger than a club and have massive euphoric moments because there are so many people there all feeling the same thing.

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

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

I always celebrate festivals – whether it’s Holi or Diwali.

How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There’s people who have been working on a book for as long as ten years, and I feel like such a cow.

I can go to festivals and open spaces, but if I’m in a crammed room with a bunch of people – oh my God.

My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It’s like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun.

Generally, when I come to festivals, I just wander freely and see what happens.

Cannes Film Festival prefers political films. We have to target certain festivals based on our films.

It’s hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.

Film festivals is a great way to display good cinema.

When you’re talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music – especially jazz – helps me refocus.

Film festivals give less of a platform to mainstream films because they already have a market.

I love the smaller clubs. I love the theaters. I love the festivals. There are things I don’t like. At certain theaters, people can’t get up and dance.

Festivals are an important occasion for us, because we all make it a point to meet up and greet each other. I personally make all Ganesha’s favorite sweets like Kozhukattai and Pal Payasam at home.

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I’m around music.

I’ve made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I’ve played – I’ve taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.

One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

If you get to bring a little movie on the festival circuit, it’s a nice experience because you get to see it with an audience. 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 to the film’s opening night at every festival.

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.

We usually go to metal and rock festivals, and Glastonbury is not like that.

Apart from working on music, I’d rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

I started with commercials – for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called ‘Satellite’ that did well in festivals.

I guess I get to make films and I love what I do, but there’s also the downside of having to be constantly present and do a lot of press, and go to festivals and do the red carpet. And that’s something that’s more and more part of an actor’s job.

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.

I see most of my movies at festivals.

All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don’t show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don’t use electricity.

Some theatres back home used to screen arthouse films by Adoor and Shyam Benegal, and week-long festivals of films from France, Germany and the U.S.S.R. That was when I realised there was a world where people did not run around trees singing duets. That it was possible to make a different kind of cinema.

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

People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

I think the most valuable thing that we’ve done at festivals is meet other filmmakers.

I want to play more festivals.

Tyrone, I think they’re taking to festivals. I don’t know which festivals it will be at. It’s like a buddy picture. It’s a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler.

I began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children – children with dreadlocks and nose rings – and play the flute.

The electronic music world is such a tight-knit community. We’re all hanging out at different festivals and such.

My parents weren’t involved in show business, but my parents would show me. We’d watch old films in the house. Little film festivals of Westerns and stuff like that when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to be those guys in those movies before I knew what being an actor was.

I’ve always been dead set against festivals – really suspicious and wary.

The bigger your songs get, the bigger the festivals you play at will be, until you make it to Ultra. It happened super quick for me. I’m still in shock, actually. I have to pinch myself a lot.

‘Gangs Of Wasseypur’ had two parts and 200 actors. I didn’t think it would be that successful and go to international festivals. These things just happen. You should just do films that you like doing.

I started realizing that when I played festivals I didn’t want to be writing all these down, sad songs.

Playing new songs at festivals is weird, obviously. People at festivals are always a bit drunk, and probably just want to hear stuff they know by bands they love, or are checking you out and don’t know your stuff very well.

I love the crowds at festivals because they’re so chilled out.

Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.

The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn’t like us for some reason; I don’t even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he’ll eventually crack, but maybe not. We’re just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, ‘Come on, dude!’

I have seen many festival films and I will be blunt, I don’t think ‘Madras Cafe’ was ready for festivals.

Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.