Festivals Quotes - Page 15

• I had played some festivals with people and met and been around some good people, for sure. But what I say to my friends and students, anything like that with a grant or a competition, it involves a great deal of luck.

  Jon Gordon

  People, Competition, Luck

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• I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of things. Simultaneously, some nice things did come in. I got a nice festival that came in, in Virginia through that. There was a club that opened in DC in the famous Willard Hotel near the White House. And the club was called The Nest. I played there a few nights. Some musicians in Philly and D.C. kind of brought me down and got me on a couple things. So things opened up a little bit.

  Jon Gordon

  Couple, Nice, Night

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• There were some things I was going and doing in Europe a little bit. Some festivals that brought me over. That was good. Some touring I did over there. But there was nothing major [from 22 to 29].

  Jon Gordon

  Europe, Littles, Touring

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• My stories were translated and had many reviews before I had an interview with any international or Arab newspaper. If the stories hadn't succeeded, you wouldn't have asked me my position on Arab festivals and I wouldn't have been interested in the festivals anyway, because I would be in seclusion, writing.

  Hassan Blasim

  Writing, Would Be, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Festivals are weird, you never know what to expect so it's a bit more nerve wracking then playing your own show.

  Frank Iero

  Nerves, Shows, Knows

  Source: www.midlandsmetalheads.com

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

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Tests, Lows, Circuits

  Source: www.grouchoreviews.com

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• I'm looking forward to seeing more of the US, and hopefully spending some of the summer in Europe playing festivals. It's early days though, so who knows.

  St. Lucia

  Summer, Europe, Looking Forward

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're playing a festival, people come to see music in general - so don't be fearful. The people are there to enjoy and discover new music so approach the show with confidence and optimism.

  Vince Staples

  Artist, People, Optimism

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• There was a producer from the Aspen Comedy Festival who happened to be there, as a friend of a friend, and she said, "I'd like to book you into the Aspen Comedy Festival," and we said, "Well, there isn't really a show to book in, this is just a little showcase and it's really our workshop." And she said, "No, it's great, I love it, just do exactly what you did."

  Brian Henson

  Book, Littles, Aspens

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

  Ava DuVernay

  Jobs, Television, Tvs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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.

  Bill Burr

  Smart, Moving, Years

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Katie Paterson introduced the project [ Future Library ] to a handful of writers at a very fine international literary festival in Denmark at the Louisiana Museum, I sent her an e-mail when I got back to Iceland, saying, "It's a wonderful project.

  Sjon

  Museums, Iceland, Library

  Source: wwd.com

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• When there are rock festivals where there are sometimes 120,000 people and they're all sold out and they're epic, I think rock is alive and well, and hopefully it stays that way.

  Caleb Shomo

  Epic, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• 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.

  Robert Englund

  People, Sometimes, Film

  Source: graveconcernsezine.com

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

  Robert Englund

  Venice, World, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced all of Shakespeare's plays, mostly in Shakespeare festivals in Ohio. One of them, the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, is still going. So I grew up not wanting to be an actor, not wanting to go into the family business.

  John Lithgow

  Father, Lakes, Ohio

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Truman Capote

  Cannes Film Festival, Mets, Sharon

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• 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.

  Trace Adkins

  Country, Years, Fans

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• 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.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Meditation, Michigan, Tuning

  Source: artsmania.ca

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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, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally.

  Agnes Varda

  Men, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.

  Thom Powers

  Taken, Editing, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In an old model, the way a film would imprint itself on the public's consciousness is to get a theatrical run. But now there are more documentaries and more films in general being released than ever before. There are weeks when the New York Times is reviewing 15 films, so it's harder to leave an impression on the public. A lot of these films are seeing their financial future on digital platforms. Because viewers aren't hearing as much about films in theatrical release, I think the festival circuit is going to have increasing importance for the life of a film.

  Thom Powers

  Running, New York, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• ...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries.

  Hermann Hesse

  Games, Musical, Trying

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• About my work, my first film, Écoute le Temps (Fissures), was positioned by distributors as a thriller because they thought that it would sell more easily. But it was surely a mistake, as that kind of viewer did not take the bait, and it drew away its potential core audience, those whom I met in festivals and in various Q&As who seem to appreciate that particular kind of cross-over arthouse film.

  Alante Kavaite

  Mistake, Appreciate, Bait

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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