Film Recognition Quotes

But as far as, for I think it will be amazing you know where I find myself years from now because of this film. It's just amazing, I think everybody's going to kind of know this film and because of it, me. So I you know it's crazy.

New Zealand was kind of getting a reputation for making middle-of-the-road films that weren't really that unique. They were kind of New Zealand versions of overseas films, and for sure, having an Oscar nomination totally helped me get funding.

It's a terrible thing to make films that are never seen or experienced by audiences. Often times nobody knows about them, even though they are great films. They are not promoted and that's really sad.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

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

Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

I mainly feel excited but also grateful to be recognised by Bafta. It makes me feel like a legit actress.

I gave John Wayne the push he needed to get that Oscar.

People saw 'Moonlight' because it was excellent.

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

When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

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

There's so many films from around the world, I emphasize, that are so beautifully photographed, but they don't get the recognition.

If 'Soorma' is getting me noticed, I have the director, Shaad Ali, to thank for it.

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

Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a student film he particularly liked. He mentioned our film. There was a dinner after the final show just for the tutors, but I was smuggled in to meet Scorsese over dessert.

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

It's nice to be known for a pretty great movie.

Richard Donner made great movies. Seminal movies. The Academy, though, and we have to be careful here, should recognize popular films. Popular films are what make it all work. There was a time when popular movies were commercial movies, and they were good movies, and they had to be good movies. There was no segregation between good independent films and popular movies.

I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. Any way to get the word out, I'm just learning about this. The end of this distribution sentence is the scariest part, which is when you start producing and directing. Now the movies are a little more like your children. You now spent years of your life and then it just dumps in one day and you think what happened? It doesn't always happen.

That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.

When my second film 'Dus' released, I was still getting compliments for 'Tum Bin' because it was a hit on satellite channels.

'Monty Python' is now more recognised by the films than by the TV series.