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.
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.
When 'Tree of Life' went to Cannes, all the interviewers were asking me about my favorite actors and actresses because I was new to the industry, and they wanted to get to know me.
I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd.
Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.
Though all festivals are important, this Cannes Festival starts off the season.
When you make a film and it wins some award at a very select, very difficult festival such as Cannes, it's good for your fellow film directors and fellow citizens too. Because it shows them that this way is a real possibility.
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.
Cannes is the largest festival of world cinema.
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.
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.
As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consumption and detrimental effects on health.
Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.
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.
Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
