41 Cannes Quotes for You to Enjoy

Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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I've been to the Met Ball and the Tonys, but Cannes is particularly huge. Every time at these big events, it's just - whoa. Because at the end of the day, I'm a guy from Devonshire who grew up on a farm who loves his dog. Alex Sharp

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Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work. Asia Argento

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The Monaco Grand Prix is in May right around the time of Cannes. Asif Kapadia

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Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest. Berenice Bejo

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It's a simple quality of human nature that people prefer to choose to do things rather than be ordered to do them. In fact, as soon as you tell me I have to do something - give a speech, attend a banquet, go to Cannes - I immediately start looking for ways to avoid doing it. Brian Grazer

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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

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One day I'm lugging walls back and forth in Louisville, and the next day I'm at Cannes giving interviews next to Ben Kingsley. I'm nowhere near cynical or jaded enough not to be incredibly thrilled by that. Chris Eigeman

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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

One year, I went to Cannes with the film 'The Indian Runner' that Sean Penn directed. Everyone else in the film was all the same height, and on the red carpet, when they were taking photos, none of them would stand next to me, and I totally got it. David Morse

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Cannes is the oldest film festival in the world, and I've long dreamed of having one of my films there in competition. It's a dream that lay dormant for a long time; I stopped believing in it. Denis Villeneuve

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Red carpets are awful. They're like a kind of purgatory - you stand there, and there are cameras flashing everywhere. One of my first red carpets was in Cannes for 'The Great Gatsby,' and I'd never seen anything like it. Elizabeth Debicki

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I didn't really know what to expect. I had been told about the scale of Cannes, but nothing could have prepared me for just how many people would turn out for our photo calls or for the opening ceremony. Elizabeth Debicki

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Apart from 'Stoned,' I can't think of a film that's made me think, 'Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.' Eric Fellner

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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

The first time I went to Cannes, Gus Van Sant was there in competition with 'Last Days.' Justin Kurzel

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The premiere of Lynne Ramsay's film of 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' at the Cannes film festival provides an apt juncture at which to celebrate the miraculous power - not of film but of fiction. Lo, I have created a monster. Lionel Shriver

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I have written movies that won prizes at Cannes and Venice. Luciano Vincenzoni

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Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again. Mathieu Amalric

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