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I love watching the Oscars and seeing everybody saying all that 'it's an honour just to be nominated' rubbish. Then you see their faces when the split screen comes up as the winner is announced - the losers are all smiling through gritted teeth and looking as if they just swallowed half a pound of soor plooms.

The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.

The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun.

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.

I am always a little surprised when anyone sees anything I make, so being nominated for the Oscar is beyond amazing - what a tremendous honor.

I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

I can tell you that going to the Oscars is not as exciting as people think, at least for me.

The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.