84 Quotes About Festival

It's a festival that very much kind of underscores for me what independent film-making is,

We've learned a lot during the years. The weather this time of year is always unpredictable. One weekend will be real pretty and then festival weekend it can rain and turnout will be down. Overall we have been lucky with the weather. People have really supported us.

The festival is as much a celebration of the readers as of the authors,

It was a surprise, ... We knew we were going to Washington, D.C., to take part in the First Americans Festival at the opening of the National Museum for the American Indian, with the Smithsonian, but we did not know that we had been invited to sing at the White House until we were already in Washington. So that was pretty exciting.

French films are increasingly taking pride of place. The number of French films at the Festival is second only to the US and Canada.

We don't see the festival as an end-point for these shows, ... It's a launching pad, a stepping stone for productions.

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

As director, I am devastated. Michael Shaw is a friend of this museum and has been a guest at the Judy Garland Festival for years. It is our hope that the slippers can be recovered immediately.

We want to make sure this festival doesn't lose that community-service feel.