Audience Quote by Stephen Chow

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get…

— Michael Haneke

The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie gets nominated…

— Morgan Freeman

You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.

— Robin Tunney

It's not awards per se that bother me; it's entirely to do with the impetus they give for marketing a film.

— John Hillcoat

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

Awards are an encouragement. An award is not something we aim at while making a film.

— Vetrimaaran

I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it…

— Jasmila Zbanic

I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that…

— Frances McDormand

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it…

— David Fincher

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…

— Javier Bardem

It's not a big deal to send a film to the festivals, but yes, winning an award is huge. When you send a film…

— Karan Wahi

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

— Javier Bardem