Cannes '92

You don't have to sell your soul, I don't think — but you certainly have to expand it a little to accommodate the international requirements of international money.

– Ian Mune on making films with international finance

You just feel like you're hallucinating — just so many people staring at you.

– Crush director Alison MacLean on facing the cameras on the red carpet of Cannes

It's the mixture I like — you know the mixture of art and vulgarity, envy and pity.

– Director John Boorman on the Cannes Film Festival

The only thing we have in Australia — and New Zealand too — is our originality, is the fact that we are at a distance, and that we are a bit different. But we're communicating universal human things. And that is our great asset.

– Strictly Ballroom director Baz Luhrmann