With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.