Academy Quote by Kevin Smith Download Open image “I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.” — Kevin Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Academy Academy award Academy awards Audience Awards Cinema Communication Conversation Conversation Audience Film Film Win Wanted Wanted Conversation Winning
I didn't set out to win an Oscar, of course, but to be in this conversation, it's somehow an honour and a strange life… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me. — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career.… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them. — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
I don't do movies for the awards. The awards are made for the films. The films are not made for the awards. — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering.… — Demian Bichir Copy Share Image
I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them. — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award. — Sally Kellerman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“GOD DOESN’T HATE FAGS OR ANYBODY ELSE FOR THAT MATTER. GOD SAVES! THEN, GOD PASSES IT TO GRETZKY - WHO ROOFS THAT SHIT, TOP-SHELF!… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Step Up Academy offers a conducive, encouraging, comfortable environment for children to step up their learning and achieve success. Our students progress within the… — Kerthiga Manokumar Copy Share Image
I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image