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The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

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.

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.

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.

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.

Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

You don't just win an Oscar because you're a great actor. You campaign for that Oscar: you engage with it; you go on the David Letterman show, and you do the interviews, and that's how you get out there.

I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.