Cannes Quotes - Page 2

• There's this Ryan Gosling quote that I steal all the time - I watched an interview with him in Cannes - and he said picking roles is like listening to songs on the radio: There can be a lot of really great songs in a row, but then one comes on that just makes you want to dance.

  Emma Stone

  Song, Listening, Roles

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• The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

  David Frum

  Tyrants, Paris, History

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

  Truman Capote

  Cannes Film Festival, Festivals, Mets

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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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, Cannes Film Festival

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• Elle Fanning was fifteen when we started [The Neon Demon]. She turned seventeen during the shoot. Four weeks before Cannes, she turned eighteen. She had her prom at Cannes.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Four, Fifteen, Neon

  Source: movieweb.com

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• In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a milestone in my life because it began actually with 'Devdas'.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Firsts, Recognition, Coming Back

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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

  Cannes Film Festival, Directors, Fans

  "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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• Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.

  Willem Dafoe

  Beach, Fun, Interesting

  "Mr Bean's Holiday - Willem Dafoe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We did receive some questions about the film's [Aquarius] sexuality in Cannes, but they came from the press rather than audiences.

  Sonia Braga

  Aquarius, Film, Sexuality

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I've wanted to make a film about French youth since I went to Cannes with my first film 'Kids' in 1995 ... Scribe's screenplay is about French kids today, and the world today. Just like my films 'Kids' and 'Ken Park', this will be a movie like you have never seen before.

  Larry Clark

  Kids, World, Today

  FaceBook post by Larry Clark from Jul 19, 2013

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• The kind of sleep that I had during my own film [Certified Copy] screening in Cannes is different. It's not because of the specificity of the film. It was because of my relationship as an author to this film. Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them. Whereas this time, I didn't have that responsibility on my shoulders.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Sleep, Responsibility, Different

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Wonderful, Film, Process

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I was really nervous about people booing, because my mother had gone for a film 20 years earlier and had a terrible time with people booing, whistling, so I knew that in Cannes people can get aggressive.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Mother, Years, People

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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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

  Cannes Film Festival, Feelings, Festivals

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When the film [Certified Copy] was in the Cannes Festival, I realized that the fact of having it shot in a different culture, in a different language, in a different setting, that wasn't mine and that I didn't belong to, gave me a totally different relationship to the film. When I was sitting in the audience during the official screening in Cannes, I didn't feel that it was my film.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Different, Culture, Sitting

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper called ‘On the Sunny Side,’ and he’s writing a review on the film, and he’s obviously bored. Then he tells me about all the cars he owns, and how rich he is, and all these things... So, at a certain point, he says, "So what do you do?" Then I take out this very strange hammer we have in the Danish building business, and I say, "I kill." And then I kill him. It is as stupid as it sounds.

  Lars von Trier

  Stupid, Writing, Car

  "Lars Von Trier, The Boss Of It All". Interview with Nick Dawson, filmmakermagazine.com. May 23, 2007.

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• Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!

  Lawrence Bender

  Stars, Rocks, Red

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• Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

  Asia Argento

  Mother, Queens, Mean

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After Cannes every year, I end up going to some foreign country I've never been to before and introducing myself to a new religion - I'll go to Bali and research Hinduism, or I'll go to Thailand and get another tattoo from Thai tattoo artist Ajarn Noo Kanpai.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Tattoo, Country, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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, Cannes Film Festival

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

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• I ended up meeting this guy Stefan Simchowitz, who produced Requiem for a Dream and also went to AFI. I randomly met him in Cannes. By September of 2000, we had made a deal with this company that he was working with. They merged with us and in January of 2001, we opened WireImage. It was pretty crazy because I only started shooting celebrity stuff in 1998 - literally two and a half years later, I'm opening this company.

  Jeff Vespa

  Dream, Crazy, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know, some people say that Cannes is the worst place in the world to see cinema. It's a paradox. They have the new films , lots of interesting films premiering there for the first time. At the same time it's such a mess and a confusion. You have to run from one screening to another.

  Miguel Gomes

  Running, Confusion, People

  Source: www.takeonecff.com

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• The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Community, Forever

  J. G. Ballard (2010). “Super-Cannes: A Novel”, p.269, Macmillan

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• There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.

  Kanye West

  Numbers, Culture, Beats

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