Noah Cowan Toronto Quotations

We perceive Toronto as the festival that has the widest brim. We try to fit as much under this umbrella as we can.

There's a lot of jostling and work that goes on here. If you're not in Toronto you should have a pretty good reason.

The international star power that descended upon Toronto in the past days was unprecedented.

I think Toronto audiences are incredibly sanguine about celebrity, ... The people who come to this festival are really focused on the films.

People who have viewed the film -- and that includes several Toronto journalists and our curators -- indicate that it certainly does not allow room to sympathize with the actions of the convicted criminals portrayed in the documentary and shows them to be morally bankrupt.

We are truly overwhelmed this year by the number of films choosing Toronto for their world premieres. Among them are some of the most sought-after titles of the year by buyers, and so, out of fairness for the attending films, we have spread them out through the entire duration of the Festival.

They are recruiting tools. We use them to attract, siren-like, the people of Toronto to experience the film festival, to experience what we perceive as satisfying work and hopefully then to experiment with more challenging films.

Today's survey results confirm Toronto's status as a top-tier festival for international business and deal-making, ... International buyers clearly recognize Toronto as one of the world's premiere festivals to discover and buy the best cinema from across the globe.

The primary reason why producers and directors and filmmakers love Toronto is the audiences here, ... They've been incredibly supportive over the years of emerging filmmakers and it's amazing how directors remember.