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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.

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'

I think once a year it's good to look back at the history of Oscar and to embrace the great work that everybody's done this year and set it in place to the great work that's gone on before us.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

I want to figure out what comes after cinema as the gold standard for storytelling.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

When you do a movie, you don't know when it's going to come out. In a year, you forget about it.

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?'

The Oscars is always the most special event of Awards Season and is the grand finale - there's just something about the atmosphere that makes it magical.