The Academy is paranoid about its image.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?
What we forget is that the Academy is a star-maker, or it reinforces the stardom of people.
There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.
I'm a believer in film school.
It's one of the wonderful things that the Academy does - a talented person comes along like Mira Sorvino, and it elevates them up to stardom.
The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.
The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.
It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
The Academy not only knew I existed, they thought I was good!