Festival Quotes

You would think by now everybody in the area would know about the festival but I run into people sometimes even in the neighborhood who aren't aware of it and yet we have people who come from almost all of the surrounding counties and even out of state. - Duane Hart

You never know what you're going to get. Last year, we had a lot of features; this year we have a lot of comedy shorts and music videos. So far, every festival has been different in tone and what kind of films we've received. - Tim Richardson

You need a good base, and opening the Toronto International Film Festival gave us both the opportunity to showcase what we can do. - John Abraham

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists! - Joseph Jarman

You know what you're going there for: to get that Lombardi (Trophy), not just to go to all those festivals. - D.D. Lewis

You have to improvise all the time. A lot of things come down to the last minute. It will be like that even 10 years from now when we're a huge festival. You have to wait until the last minute to get the new films, to get the filmmaker to commit, to get the actresses to commit. Because of their schedules, they're not able to tell you three months out. It's in flux even now. - Scott Cross

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights. - Elvis Costello

You can have them all without the festival being an out-and-out market. Even a smattering of the possibility of a market presence is significant. - Mark Urman