- Nov 07, 2020
Film Festival Quotes
Words from the film festival circuit.
These film festival quotes cover the nerves behind the glamour, from a stressful First red carpet at Venice to a project that took twelve years to finally premiere.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'Brain on Fire' premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2016, I fixated on inconsequential things like what dress I would wear and how much weight I wanted to lose. I lost my perspective.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cannes Film Festival is the biggest, most prestigious film festival in the world. This is where filmmakers are discovered, where futures are made, and the most important films premiered.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quite like that people tend not to know my name. I remember being at the Cannes film festival for 'All or Nothing.' I looked very different in the film - I had a little greasy bob and no makeup. I went to a dinner after the screening, and everyone completely ignored me. I got a real buzz out of that.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took Cianfrance 12 years to bring 'Blue Valentine' to the screen after he first conceived it. He found Gosling and Williams early on, and they hung in there with him. The film finally premiered at Sundance 2010, then screened at Cannes and the Toronto Film Festival before landing in theaters in December.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first film festival and my first film that I've ever been in, 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' that was at Sundance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we finished 'Stop Making Sense,' we went right to the San Francisco Film Festival for the world premiere, and people swarmed the stage and started dancing before the first song was even finished.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many have asked me, 'Why have a film festival in the middle of a war?' But they have it backwards. The question is, 'Why have a war in the middle of a film festival?'
- Documentary Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.
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- Nov 07, 2020