Quotes About Cannes Film Festival

#1. 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

#2. I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed 'The Virgin Spring.' I walked into that theater as one person, and I walked out as another.

Max Von Sydow

#3. My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#4. 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

#5. When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.

David Alan Basche

#6. So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

Christina Aguilera

#7. 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

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

Georgina Chapman

#9. To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant.

Luke Evans

#10. I love the Cannes Film Festival. From the lavish parties and events to the red carpet attire, this star-studded week-long event is where I get a lot of inspiration for hair and fashion.

Tabatha Coffey

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival.

Milos Forman

#14. We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.

Warren Farrell

#15. There is so much beauty in autumn and so much wisdom; so much separation and so much sorrow!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. 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

#17. Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

Craig Shirley

#18. I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

Ron Silver

#19. 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

#20. Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.

Bridget Fonda

#21. After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#22. Training sessions are vital to the learning process, but they are only one step in the learning process and this should never be forgotten.

Ravinder Tulsiani

#23. The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

David Satcher

#24. Next time
we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!

Leonard Leventon

#25. It is significant that while there is a word "profiteer" to stigmatize those who make allegedly excessive profits, there is no such word as "wageer" - or "losseer.

Henry Hazlitt

#26. Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.

Leonard Leventon

#27. Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

Samuel Smiles

#28. There is a little bit of everybody in everybody.

Leonard Leventon

#29. 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

#30. Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

Harold Rosenberg

#31. Expectations imply a future, which doesn't exist. There's only the present.

Mark Tullius

#32. They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

Philip Kaufman

#33. He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.

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