Arts

"I'm going to direct something and act in something," Eckhart said about his next film. "I feel like if I'm going to go, go all the way."

"We would like to thank all of the filmmakers whose fantastic films screened at the festival this year," said HIFF Artistic Director David Nugent.

"This will be a truly unique experience and a world-class concert featuring a multicultural lineup of highly accomplished musicians," series curator Claes Brondal said.

"Their courage to ignore trends and simply follow this instinctual desire, creates exceptional artwork," Demato expressed. "We are proud to share these pieces of their soul."

"In an Italian household, there were two figures for me growing up - you had the Pope and you had Frank Sinatra, and, of course, Tony Bennett," Davi told Hamptons.com.

"Salon Series creates an intimate and interactive environment for master musicians of classical and contemporary music to share their performances in new ways," explained Curator of Special Projects Corinne Erni.

"As the Founder and Creative Director of CRUSH Curatorial, I hope that this exhibit will promote a meaningful exchange of ideas between participating artists and filmmakers that attend the Hamptons International Film Festival," said Karen Flatow.

"9 Realists' artistic common thread for this show is that we are all nine of us painting in a representational style- that means viewers can recognize scenes, objects in the paintings," shared Ann Lombardo.

"It's been his passion and he's never really been in a movie where he wasn't saying someone else's words - where he had to be himself, and he was willing to do that," Stevens said about DiCaprio.

"As a kid, being in the spotlight at such a young age, she's been growing and figuring out who she is in the public spotlight - I was much more interested in what that was like for a young girl," said Auritt.