Annie Proulx Quotes

I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

Awards season is always a huge amount of fun whether you're a part of it or not. It's always really exciting seeing what films are coming and a lot of new talent as well.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies.

When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.

How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.

Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

Usually, people think that award movies are hard to break.

I was disappointed that 'Tangled' didn't get nominated for Best Animated Film.

I want to tackle the award-winning films. I want to be seen as an actor-actor.

I'm a member of BAFTA, so I vote in all the films that come up for the Academy Awards.

I'd made this film called 'This Little Life,' and it went round the fests and won awards and did well.

The Oscars have always been an arena in which very commercial films are recognised, and I don't mean that in a bitter way; I just didn't ever look in that direction.

The commercial success that came with Anjali Menon's 'Bangalore Days' helped me in getting my work noticed.

I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.

That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.

Sadly most films only get exposure if they win an award or were in a festival, which is really difficult because those things cost money! Submitting your film to a festival or campaigning for an Oscar or a Golden Globe is very expensive. Most people don't know that, but all those events require a lot of money. If you have a small independent film, it's very hard to get the attention of people in those circles.

Everyone in the movie industry wants to win an Oscar. I don't think that's why you make movies. But winning an Oscar is not just about making a great movie, unfortunately. It's also having a good Oscar campaign.