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

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The Festival has been a long time supporter of her extraordinary career and she has been a wonderful partner for us in building this Festival and organization.

218

It takes artists awhile both to digest current events and get films made. This lag of four years makes sense, if one was going to predict accurately when we would start seeing these kinds of films.

197

We wouldn't be showing the Hollywood films we do unless we felt it was going to benefit all the films that are playing.

183

U.S. cinema has a long way to go. Hollywood is not the most welcoming place for female directors. Women have made leaps and bounds over the last 10 years in filling studio executive jobs, but still, behind the camera, it's very driven by guilds that aren't as welcoming to women as they might be.

180

We were thrilled to host so many wonderful films from around the world.

157

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

149

If there had been anyone talking about bad films, I'd have to assume there had to be a bit of sour grapes going on.

133

We didn't anticipate that there would be major studio-like deals happening, ... When you are dealing with that, suddenly everybody gets a little nervous. When the big boys start to play, everyone else has to kind of fall back a little bit.

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