Warsaw Film Festival, Day 3

“I love this festival, they throw great parties.”
“They don’t know how to party here, I arrived after eleven o’clock and people kept asking me why I came so late!”
“I’ve lived in Warsaw for three years.  Polish is a language that has no connection to anything human.  It was invented by aliens and beamed down to these people.”
“Are you the Lebanese guy who made the film about Iran? No? Pakistani?  About what?  Punk Muslims? Yes, I’ve heard about you.”
“Should we go up and talk to that guy?  He’s a big actor in Poland.”
“I used to come to this club when I was like fourteen.”
“There’s no more money to fund documentaries, anymore.”
“There’s no more money to be made in fiction films.”
“The money is drying up, it’s just getting harder and harder to make films.”
“The technology is so cheap now, it’s so much easier to make a film now.”
“I was disappointed at Cannes, the movie still hasn’t found a distributor.”
“(That French actress) was a real pain in the ass.”
“(That French actor) was supposed to be in the film, but I called his agent a few days before and he pulled a disappearing act.”
“Most of the films here don’t get big distribution deals, so we don’t get ‘big name’ titles.”
“This festival shows a lot of cutting edge, underground films you won’t see anywhere else.”
“Cannes is crazy, but even after attending 30 festivals, I still love it.”
“There’s the guy whose on the jury for the competition your film is in, you should discreetly go up and meet him. But don’t be too obvious about it.”
“When is your film playing?  I’ll definitely for sure come out and see it … Well, I’ll try to see it.  When is it again?  Oh no, I don’t think I can make it.  Sorry.”
“This is a people’s festival.  The audiences are great.  I think Polish people love cinema in general.”
“Polish audiences are kind of cold.  No one stuck around for the Q&A.”
“(That Danish filmmaker) is really a very shy man.”
“I made the whole film for $3,000.”
“Our budget was a little over a million.”
“Wow, there’s so much free food!”
“This vodka is not the good stuff but at least it’s free.”
“I tried to see that film, but I was still nursing my hangover.”
“Polish people all speak good English, but we’re perfectionists. So, if it’s not the ‘Queen’s English’ then people are too shy to speak.”
“Go see that person over in Hospitality.  Sort of looks like me, tall and skinny and glasses – but a woman.”
“Excuse me, I’ve got a friend over there that I have to talk to … I’ll be back in a minute.”