Quotes about Festival

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? Votes: 4

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege. Votes: 4

I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival. Votes: 3

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival. Votes: 3

I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran. Votes: 3

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema. Votes: 3

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977. Votes: 3

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time. Votes: 3

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes. Votes: 3

The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytelling. Votes: 3

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago. Votes: 3

Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count -- / Festival of the Souls. Votes: 3

When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there. Votes: 3

The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening. Votes: 3

I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too. Votes: 3

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan. Votes: 3

The Banff Mountain [Book] Festival attracts this huge number of travel writers. Whereas when I go to literary festivals... Votes: 3

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival. Votes: 3

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited. Votes: 3

The adorably rubber-faced Ken James Stewart is jumping ship from the Shaw Festival after five years to play Charlie Brown Votes: 3

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one. Votes: 3

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important. Votes: 3

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way. Votes: 3

To be honest, I was just honored to be in the same festival [ Raindance Film Festival's ] as Johnny To and Dominik Moll... Votes: 3

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica. Votes: 3

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life. Votes: 3

The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around. Votes: 3

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous. Votes: 3

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival. Votes: 3

If singing a couple of songs in a benefit will help keep the Festival alive and known, well, how can I say no to that? Votes: 3

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival. Votes: 3

The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen. Votes: 3

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is. Votes: 3

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival. Votes: 3

To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant. Votes: 3

I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival. Votes: 3

This January, Kevin Costner will be honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival for his contribution to film. This gives Costner just two months to make a contribution to film. Votes: 3

Every year there's a jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Getting on the jury is very competitive in France. Not because the French love cinema, but because they love to judge. Votes: 3

That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it. Votes: 3

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up. Votes: 3

When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both. Votes: 3

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise. Votes: 3

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price. Votes: 3

I love the Cannes Film Festival. From the lavish parties and events to the red carpet attire, this star-studded week-long event is where I get a lot of inspiration for hair and fashion. Votes: 3

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time. Votes: 3

My career has been a slow burn, so waiting to do the Edinburgh Festival was a smart move. If I'd spent a month there 10-15 years ago, there's no way anyone was gonna remember me. Votes: 3

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May. Votes: 3

I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed 'The Virgin Spring.' I walked into that theater as one person, and I walked out as another. Votes: 3

The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American. Votes: 3

The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American Votes: 3

I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Martin's Monsanto poem holds devastating power. I heard the first public reading at the Resurgence Festival of well-being in London. It brought truth with clarity, not least with a kind of conviction and passion that is all too rare Votes: 3

I am deeply honored that my team is being recognized by H.S.H. Prince Albert II and the Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo for Disney/ABC's role in creating television that inspires and captivates audiences wherever they live. Votes: 3

When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held. Votes: 3

I actually remember getting asked when we were at the Cannes Film Festival, what I expected to do next. I remember feeling like there was no way I could've imagined that something like Tetro would have happened to me. Votes: 3

Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival. Votes: 3

I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind. Votes: 3

I love playing the CMA Music Festival each year because it's one of the very best audiences you could hope for. It's one of the places you can perform where you know everyone there is a big Country Music fan. Votes: 3

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled. Votes: 3

There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks. Votes: 3

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself. Votes: 3

We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and in Aspen, there was a producer from the Edinborough Fringe Festival, who said, "Please come to Edinborough." Votes: 3

When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, 'Women of Substance.' My first feature documentary was called 'American Hollow,' which I did for HBO and was at the Sundance Film Festival. Votes: 3

I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation. Votes: 3

Tribeca Film Festival Doha will be both an industry festival and an audience festival, not just an event for insiders. Community outreach will be a major part of what we're doing. We'll put filmmakers in touch with local, regional, and international audiences. Votes: 3

January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career. Votes: 3

I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-one of those first mashup books-and then I went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with my family. Votes: 3

A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime. Votes: 3

This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater. Votes: 3

Cheryl [Hines] and I sat through two screenings at the Sundance Film Festival and during the second one, we said to each other: "You know, we don't have to get sad about this. Let's try to enjoy this. Let's just watch it. It's a happy movie [Waitress]." Votes: 3

Tribeca Film Festival Doha will promote Middle Eastern themes and filmmakers, but not exclusively. Approximately 40 films will be presented at the new Museum of Islamic Art and in cinemas across Doha. Innovative work by established filmmakers will be shown alongside the debuts of newly discovered directing talents. Votes: 3

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I'll never forget him tweeting about 'The Interrupters' right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. Votes: 3

And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up." Votes: 3

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. Votes: 2

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me. Votes: 2

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival. Votes: 2

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper. Votes: 2

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. Votes: 2

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. Votes: 2

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Votes: 2

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe. Votes: 2

I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was when he led 3,000 people on a conga out of the tent and across the entire site to a vegetarian food truck. Votes: 2

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 that it advertises the film for the rest of the year. Votes: 2

Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction. Votes: 2

Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm. Votes: 2

There is nothing in this world that I love more than my family. To be able to share the joy of running with them at the Runner's World Half Marathon and Running Festival where we can all participate together is as close as you can get to a perfect weekend. Votes: 2

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack. Votes: 2

I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Deepawali. The festival of lights, celebrated with gaiety and enthusiasm all over the country, signifies the victory of good over evil and is an appropriate occasion for us to resolve to follow the high ideals in life. Votes: 2

And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy. Votes: 2

The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability. Votes: 2

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life. Votes: 2

To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing. Votes: 2

I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture. Votes: 2

I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.' Votes: 2

I've always wanted to be a DJ so I could play the music I love for other people. That feeling hasn't changed, but my sets are always evolving. In terms of tailoring to a specific crowd, certainly I do play differently depending on the situation. It's a different feel, for example, in a small club versus a festival. Votes: 2

At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting his book 'Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower,' in which he describes attending the Yankees' 154th game in 1961. The whole family had been following Mantle and Maris chase Babe Ruth's home run record across the country. Votes: 2

Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. Votes: 2

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity. Votes: 0

I really love the festival circuit. Votes: 0

I love the outdoor festival feeling. Votes: 0

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism. Votes: 0

Life is a festival only to the wise. Votes: 0

Sometimes success is just limited to festival circuit. Votes: 0

For the wise man, every day is a festival. Votes: 0

Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes. Votes: 0

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom. Votes: 0

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas. Votes: 0

Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men! Votes: 0

The moon has become a dancer at this festival of LOVE. Votes: 0

Marriage is a festival to celebrate unconditional love between two beating hearts. Votes: 0

He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival. Votes: 0

I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour. Votes: 0

I'm a huge festival fan. I love to dance and dance all night long. Votes: 0

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival. Votes: 0

Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life; Votes: 0

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed. Votes: 0

Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration Votes: 0

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want. Votes: 0

You can't host an Italian film festival without Marcello Mastroianni. It just doesn't feel right. Votes: 0

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day. Votes: 0

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it. Votes: 0

When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people. Votes: 0

Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured. Votes: 0

Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights Votes: 0

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps. Votes: 0

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front. Votes: 0

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent! Votes: 0

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival. Votes: 0

It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival. Votes: 0

There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival. Votes: 0

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. Votes: 0

I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd. Votes: 0

As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves. Votes: 0

When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands. Votes: 0

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning. Votes: 0

Christmas is a sacred festival. It is celebration of Christ love for Humankind. And the love that bind us together. Votes: 0

In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think. Votes: 0

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. Votes: 0

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great. Votes: 0

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me. Votes: 0

Selfridges' Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers. Votes: 0

We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit. Votes: 0

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources. Votes: 0

This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining the spirit of brotherhood. Votes: 0

The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival. Votes: 0

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front. Votes: 0

Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment. Votes: 0

I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival. Votes: 0

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. Votes: 0

My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance. Votes: 0

Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom. Votes: 0

At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series. Votes: 0

New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies. Votes: 0

I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books. Votes: 0

Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year. Votes: 0

Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good. Votes: 0

Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman [John] Lewis at a book festival. Votes: 0

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival. Votes: 0

My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards. Votes: 0

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there. Votes: 0

The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced. Votes: 0

We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico. Votes: 0

Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don't want to win anything or lose anything. Votes: 0

To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole. Votes: 0

In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails. Votes: 0

(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality. Votes: 0

In New York, I'll walk down the street and someone will say, 'Nice show,' and that's it. If I'm at a food festival, it's open season. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Votes: 0

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie ["Selling Isobel"] to anyone, and people are a little bit traumatised by it. Votes: 0

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive! Votes: 0

All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's how locked down TV is. Votes: 0

What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings. Votes: 0

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975. Votes: 0

Wagner festival was [Adolf Hitler] time with the Wagner family. [Eva Braun] asked once to attend but he forbade it and that was that, she never asked again. Votes: 0

What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time. Votes: 0

In 2007, I had on-paper success. I got to go to that Aspen comedy festival, which was pretty exclusive, I guess. Then I did Carson Daly. That was enough validation. Votes: 0

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood. Votes: 0

Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again. Votes: 0

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I know sometimes when I go to a convention or a film festival occasionally people bring me really valuable and really rare memorabilia that I have never seen before. Votes: 0

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 carry so much stress and excitement. Votes: 0

At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor. Votes: 0

I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there's lots more to come. Votes: 0

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today. Votes: 0

I stopped my iTunes festival set because someone fainted at the front. It felt like the right thing to do at the time but maybe I was being too sensitive. Votes: 0

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival. Votes: 0

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.' Votes: 0

I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good. Votes: 0

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers. Votes: 0

Only in Texas can mesquite have its own festival, then there's a crawfish festival, a festival for strawberries, everything has its own festival, with each town having their own yearly thing. Votes: 0

Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly. Votes: 0

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival. Votes: 0

I experimented with my own one-man show a couple of years ago in Aspen when HBO used to have their comedy festival there. I called it 'A History of Me.' Votes: 0

The whole being-in-a-room interview thing, at a junket or a film festival, is very inhuman. You meet the person, have five or 10 minutes to talk, and it's not like a conversation. Votes: 0

Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival. Votes: 0

We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal. Votes: 0

The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking. Votes: 0

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. Votes: 0

People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We're excited to be appearing in Tel Aviv in the framework of the Pic.nic festival. This is an important tour for us and we're glad that Israel is part of it Votes: 0

Sin met Mae and Alan coming into the flat. Mae frowned. "Is it no-shirts festival day?" "Every day with Nick is no-shirts festival day," Alan said absently, but he was frowning too. Votes: 0

If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident. Votes: 0

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling. Votes: 0

I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way. Votes: 0

I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl... Votes: 0

The whole idea of a festival to me is that filmmakers get to interact. You see someone strolling, you get to meet them and tell them you like their work, you admire their story. Votes: 0

I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: 'Oh, that's what I have to do.' Votes: 0

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that. Votes: 0

Our Feastival of Queens area, which featured five different authentic ethnic foods from Queens, was one of the most popular areas of the festival, and was written about in a number of different reviews. Votes: 0

I think, often with Australian films, if an Australian film has been given the seal of approval by an offshore festival or an offshore release, then it does mean a lot to a local audience. Votes: 0

One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights. Votes: 0

Pontus , instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God , that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs ). Votes: 0