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The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

— Lynda Obst

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

— Lynda Obst

For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy... delighted. There is nothing more after…

— Satyajit Ray

I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.

— Lena Headey

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

— Bai Ling

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

— Gloria Stuart

I want to single out Kathryn Hahn's performance in Jill Soloway's film 'Afternoon Delight,' which in my opinion should have been nominated for an…

— Amy Landecker

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going…

— Ashley Benson

I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars,…

— Robert Osborne

I'm incredibly proud to be the first trans director to be nominated for an Oscar.

— Yance Ford

Let's be clear about one thing: a film about Katharine Hepburn is an excellent idea. She was one of the most fascinating, complex stars…

— William J. Mann

“For one thing, she hadn't exactly chosen a field; although she has since childhood imagined picking up her Oscar, the category has never been…

— Elizabeth Crane