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The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

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.

It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

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 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.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.