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I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.

— Joss Whedon

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.

— Viggo Mortensen

The whole idea of a festival to me is that filmmakers get to interact. You see someone strolling, you get to meet them and tell them you like their work, you admire their story.

— Seymour Cassel

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

— Melanie Lynskey

There's just a completely different vibe at festivals. Everyone gets to hang out and enjoy their favorite music all day. I really do try and play as many festivals as possible!

— Kygo

If you get to bring a little movie on the festival circuit, it's a nice experience because you get to see it with an audience. People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

— Dito Montiel

I really do try and play as many festivals as possible.

— Kygo

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'

— Gary Clark, Jr.

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

— Johnny Marr

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.

— Martin Freeman

I first visited the Toronto fest in 1979, its fourth edition, when it was known as the Festival of Festivals and had an audience of about 40,000. I happily returned to the 10-day skein nearly every year thereafter, as attendance swelled to 400,000 and it grew into the most influential film festival in North America, perhaps the world.

— Richard Corliss