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So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? -- Christina Aguilera
When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me. -- Monica Bellucci
I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time. -- Georgina Chapman
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
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
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
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 that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown. -- Brigitte Bardot
Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself! -- Lawrence Bender
Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical. -- Lili Taylor
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
If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, its silly. -- Mathieu Amalric
I don't believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don't want to win anything or lose anything. -- Woody Allen
I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging -- William Hurt
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
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French. -- P. G. Wodehouse
This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the barrier of normality by someone who feels that the possibilities of cinema have not been exhausted by conventional realist drama. -- Peter Bradshaw
After Cannes every year, I end up going to some foreign country I've never been to before and introducing myself to a new religion - I'll go to Bali and research Hinduism, or I'll go to Thailand and get another tattoo from Thai tattoo artist Ajarn Noo Kanpai. -- Michelle Rodriguez
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
I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival. -- Truman Capote
The Monaco Grand Prix is in May right around the time of Cannes. -- Asif Kapadia
Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest -- Berenice Bejo
Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest. -- Berenice Bejo
Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes. -- Robert Englund
Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others. -- Rob Lowe
I've been to Cannes 15 or 16 times, and every time I go, there's a kind of soul-stirring feeling. -- Gong Li
I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd. -- Eric Fellner
In 2009, I went to Cannes with a short film in the Kodak emerging program at the American Pavilion. -- Ryan Coogler
I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
We did receive some questions about the film's [Aquarius] sexuality in Cannes, but they came from the press rather than audiences. -- Sonia Braga
You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places. -- Caleb Landry Jones
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
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital. -- David Frum
If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it's silly. -- Mathieu Amalric
When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself. -- Jerry Seinfeld
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
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
At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury. -- James Gray
In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a milestone in my life because it began actually with 'Devdas'. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging. -- William Hurt
Elle Fanning was fifteen when we started [The Neon Demon]. She turned seventeen during the shoot. Four weeks before Cannes, she turned eighteen. She had her prom at Cannes. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. -- Ridley Scott
You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale. -- Marjane Satrapi
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
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
The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet. -- Harvey Pekar
I was really nervous about people booing, because my mother had gone for a film 20 years earlier and had a terrible time with people booing, whistling, so I knew that in Cannes people can get aggressive. -- Charlotte Gainsbourg
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
Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know. -- Taika Waititi
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
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
I actually remember getting asked when we were at the Cannes Film Festival, what I expected to do next. I remember feeling like there was no way I could've imagined that something like Tetro would have happened to me. -- Alden Ehrenreich
Red carpet dressing all depends on the climate. I think richer, deeper colours are more flattering on the body, but the opposite is true if you are in Cannes or St. Tropez where the light makes deep colours look heavy and unflattering. -- Alice Temperley
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
I really understood what was happening in Cannes. I was in a restaurant during a break and when I came out 2 hours later, 500 people were waiting for me at the exit. It was total chaos. They literally had to carry me to the car. -- Robert Pattinson
For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all! -- William Kircher
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
Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers. -- Willem Dafoe
There's this Ryan Gosling quote that I steal all the time - I watched an interview with him in Cannes - and he said picking roles is like listening to songs on the radio: There can be a lot of really great songs in a row, but then one comes on that just makes you want to dance. -- Emma Stone
Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel. -- Olivier Dahan
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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