Mark Rydell Quotes

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

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

I loved all awards shows growing up, but of course, the Oscars was the biggest one.

Awards season is big for me - I love following all the films and who might be nominated.

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.

Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.

Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.

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.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it!

Academy Awards don't really solve anything.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

The Indian film industry is very, very vibrant. It is a mix like it is in Hollywood - there is a lot of highly commercial cinema.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

I read certain articles about how all of the new filmmakers are immediately being given massive tentpoles, and there's a lot of original movies that we have now lost as a result of this. I don't want to call it a fad because I think it's a good thing. I think the movies are better as a result.

'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it.

I always wanted to go to Sundance.

The Oscars is a sport. There's the excitement of watching something live, as it happens.

I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

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.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.