“It's not like a Sundance Film Festival, ... Certainly it's more about the craft and celebrating the actual art of filmmaking, not necessarily a business-type situation.”
David Pratt
“Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.”
John Akers
“The first American Black Film Festival (originally called the Acapulco Black Film Festival, or ABFF, until the name was changed in 2002) was held in June 1997.http://www.ithacafilmfest.com/2011/12/09/american-black-film-festival/”
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“No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul”
Ingrid Bergman
“Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.”
Jean Cocteau
“In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage”
Frank Capra
“James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.”
Will Ferrell