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Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.

Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

You want to win. Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.

I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

I think anytime you get nominated for an award, it's a very humbling thing.

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.

I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.