Beasts Quote by Damien Chazelle

I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards…

— Luise Rainer

It's no accident that all the awards are for smaller movies. When you have $100 million in the budget for a movie, there's something…

— Margot Kidder

What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired…

— Octavia Spencer

'Beasts of the Southern Wild' was one of those films that I felt like I could dismiss because it received so many accolades, but…

— Carrie Brownstein

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

— Jamie Foxx

I Am' was a smaller film. It went on to win a National Award, but it didn't have the kind of reach that it…

— Arjun Mathur

For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal…

— Benicio Del Toro

Every film has its ups and downs. Each time it seems like pushing a boat over a mountain. I worked on 'The Lovely Bones'…

— Lynne Ramsay

I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.

— Jean Simmons

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the…

— Martin Scorsese

The Oscars have always been an arena in which very commercial films are recognised, and I don't mean that in a bitter way; I…

— Debra Granik