Tina Fey Quotes

The consolidated appreciation that 'Eega' is the pride of the Telugu film industry is the biggest award I can get.

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'

Sometimes success is just limited to festival circuit.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.

'The Player,' I loved so much because it was such a labor of love on all levels, and it was such an enormous honor to be in a Robert Altman movie.

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

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

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

I met Roger Ebert at an independent-film awards or something. And he said, 'When I saw you just now, I wanted to punch you in the face. And then I had to remember you're an actor. So, congratulations!' Those are my accolades.

As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.

I have an Oscar on my mantel.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

It seemed like a wonderful honor to have the Film Society of Lincoln Center screen 'The Films of Raquel Welch.' It shows a lot of a variety in what they've chosen; it kind of runs the gamut of my film career.

I love my role in 'Deshamuduru' but I did not get any award.

It's nice to be known for a pretty great movie.

This worldwide spread of recognition is insane. I was brought up in a small country. If you made a Swedish film that just got into a film festival somewhere, that was like the biggest thing you could wish for.

Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

To win Best Director at Sundance was beyond anything I could have imagined for myself. It's still an incredible feeling to know I won. But as happy as I am about winning, I also know many other women of color have directed amazing films over the years that were equally deserving and didn't win.