I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.
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 have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.
My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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