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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.

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.

Actors are real. It's a real skill, and it exists, and talent really exists.

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.

They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

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?'

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.

This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.