Cinematic Recognition Quotes

Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.

Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award.

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

I'll be honest with you: I'd rather have BAFTA over an Academy Award any day. Because it's just cool.

Everybody goes and sees 'Fantastic Four,' but nobody sees 'Sunshine.' I'd have a different career if people saw that.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

I am extremely proud that our cinema is being recognised in the West. I want Indian cinema to get its dignity, not by giving them the kind of films they expect from us, but by making cinema in a way that carries the legacy of the mainstream masters forward.

When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented 'El Topo' in the United States; they introduced it.

The academy which boasts of 6,000 to 8,000 voting members are most likely to get swayed by the national mood in the US. There is a point person for every movie at the Oscars, who is supposed to promote the film and is trusted by the panel. By keeping all these in mind, Tamil cinema making its way to the final list is quite ambitious.

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.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

'Room' is a very subtly-made film, and directing awards tend to go to the flashier stuff, but it's the Director's section of the academy that make the decision, so I'm very proud they can see something in what I directed and wanted to reward it.

If people remember me for any scene in a Lars von Trier film, I'm extremely honoured and forever grateful.

The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie gets nominated for any award it does it a big favour. People might go and see it again... they won't give up on it.