Award-Winning Films Quotes

When it comes to movies, if it's a classic or award-winner, I promise I've never seen it. But if it's anything superhero-related, I've probably watched it 100 times.

Bill Condon has made some excellent movies.

Comedies don't get nominated for Oscars. It doesn't happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it's not what we're thinking about.

I would rather be attached to well-made, big-budget films.

For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'

Francis Lawrence is an astonishing filmmaker, an incredibly gifted visual filmmaker. I have great respect for his work.

In the 80s, parallel cinema gained momentum. So, I got back to films and won National awards for Maqbool' and other films.

I want to act in films such as 'My Left Foot' and 'A Beautiful Mind.'

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

Working with Woody Allen was extremely gratifying. He has such a vast catalog of great work that doing one of his films was somewhat unreal.

The two most exciting things for me to get to work on 'The Wolverine' was getting to work with James Mangold, the director who directed '3:10 to Yuma' and 'Walk the Line' as well as getting to work with Hugh Jackman.

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.

Tarsem Singh was such a fantastic director.

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

I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'.

Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

After the success of 'Krishnan Love Story,' I have decided to work only on good films.

You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell and it's actually been really nice.

I would love to see Steven Spielberg working. I just think he's the greatest living director.

Because all the movies that we tell ourselves we can't make - ballets, westerns, dramas, everything that are the hardest things to make - those are the movies that are not only winning awards which is fantastic, but also those movies that are commercial. We won't see a fascinating season like this for a while.

Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.

I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep.