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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 guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.