Seth Rogen Quotes

You either like something, or you don't; you won't change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it.

I'm a member of BAFTA, so I vote in all the films that come up for the Academy Awards.

Though I was nominated for awards for films like 'Tezaab' and 'Apna Sapna Money Money' but I never won an award. Now I am not even nominated for any awards but still I attend the award functions as I love being there despite figuring prominently in a lot of leg pulling that goes around in the award ceremonies.

The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun.

That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry... brightest.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

I think I have a better chance at getting an Oscar before a Grammy.

The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

Some of my favorite movies are Hollywood movies. Hollywood is part of the cinematic spectrum. I nurture a healthy love-hate relationship with Hollywood.

I have more fun talking about other movies than talking about my own.

I have done about 25 films in Malayalam and won awards for my performances in films like 'Nandanam' and 'Saira.'

I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.

When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

I don't like filmmakers to tell people how they should react to their movies. I absolutely have favorites, and I have others that I'm mortified by, but I keep that to myself. I think I've managed to find some very interesting things that I've been very satisfied with recently. I don't know if that's gonna keep going.

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year - they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards. So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I've ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up - motley isn't the word for that group. Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage - I had to bury myself in my napkin.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.

The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

If people are reacting to films based on their degree of success or failure, then they're not really looking at the movie. I don't really care about that. Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but at least base your opinion on the merit of the work itself.