I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd.

You can't host an Italian film festival without Marcello Mastroianni. It just doesn't feel right.

Doing a festival in Hong Kong was special, looking out and seeing this massive crowd and the city.

The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.

When you grow up, life makes you so busy that you completely lose the excitement around a festival.

Somebody from Pitchfork Festival wanted me to have a Microphones reunion. It's a joke. It's just me.

I have a festival called Shaggy and Friends, which is a charity event to raise funds for a hospital.

The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytelling.

There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival.

Cannes Film Festival prefers political films. We have to target certain festivals based on our films.

I once went to Alba, Italy, during their white truffle festival, and I was like, 'Just leave me here!'

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.

'Hum Dono' was accepted in a very big way. It was the official entry at the 1962 Berlin Film Festival.

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.

I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

I have seen many festival films and I will be blunt, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' was ready for festivals.

One of my least favourite gigs was a festival. There weren't many people there and they were all talking.

It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.

In the '70s, as a kid, someone took me to a Tournee of Animation festival at the L.A. County Museum of Art.

I like Pride festival because we get to show up and show out. Remind people we have resilience and rainbows.

I have to say I like Edinburgh, but I'm not a big fan of the Festival - I like it but I'm not a massive fan.

Festival culture is all about evolving consciousness and generating a sense of unity, hope, and possibility.

At a festival, some people are just there because they're waiting for, like, Calvin Harris to come on later.

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival.

My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to.

I conquered my phobia of camping, although I doubt I'll be pitching my tent at a muddy festival any time soon.

The crowd at Download Festival always welcomes us with a lot of energy so I can't wait to perform there again!

I think for me to be involved in a festival, there has to be a strong element of songwriting and musicianship.

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

Ganesh Chaturthi is very close to my heart. The festival brings with it joy, love, and happiness for everyone.

One of the nicest things to do in Kingston on a Sunday is eat johnnycake, Festival and fish at Hellshire Beach.

Music is how I unwind. I love going to see bands or DJs at a festival or a dive bar. My taste is pretty diverse.

I was acting before I was modelling, when I was very young, doing the Edinburgh Festival and that sort of stuff.

Warped Tour is completely in a league of its own. It's this crazy cross between a real, full tour and a festival.

As my mother is a Kerala Brahmin and my father a Kerala Nair, every day in the house is like a religious festival.

My first film festival and my first film that I've ever been in, 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' that was at Sundance.

Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was the Beatles!

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

I get kind of nervous in crowds, so a musical festival would never be something I would go to, unless I was playing.

In Sweden we have a jazz festival, and I would try to see all these people like Angie Stone there when I was younger.

One thing we've always wanted to do is just do things our way, and we've always talked about having our own festival.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

We are a multicultural family. My mother is Hindu, my father Muslim. We celebrate every festival, be it Diwali or Eid.

Cannes is a lot of work, since it's a market festival and a serious festival, and they really work you, understandably.

Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.

My favorite festival beauty look is definitely braids and hats: a messy fishtail braid and a cute outfit, and I'm ready!

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