Cannes Film Festival Quotes

• For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.

  Ivana Trump

  Summer, Home, Holiday

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• 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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Years, People, Three

  "Cinema is over". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• 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.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Directors, Fans, Paradise

  "An Interview With South Korea’s Box Office Champ Director Bong Joon-ho". Interview with Jon Herskovitz, blogs.reuters.com. June 15, 2009.

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

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Political, Different, Littles

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• I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.

  Truman Capote

  Festivals, Mets, Sharon

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• 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.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Feelings, Festivals, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Craig Ferguson

  Years, Judging, French Love

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• So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

  Christina Aguilera

  Funny, Movie, Stupid

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• Vincent Gallo has put a curse on my colon and a hex on my prostate. He called me a 'fat pig' in the New York Post and told the New York Observer I have 'the physique of a slave-trader.' He is angry at me because I said his 'The Brown Bunny' was the worst movie in the history of the Cannes Film Festival...
  it is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and he will still be the director of 'The Brown Bunny.'

  Roger Ebert

  New York, Pigs, One Day

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• Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Sleep, Thinking, Eight

  "Jeremy Irvine’s Fan Club". Interview with Michael Douglas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2015.

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

  Roger Ebert

  Satanic, Festivals, Peter

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.145, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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.

  Salma Hayek

  Directors, Female, Oscars

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

  Georgina Chapman

  Festivals, Glamorous, Film

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