When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.
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 award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
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.
The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.