#academy

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#academy awards #awards #been #compromised #count

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#give #got #i #i think #ourselves

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. ↗

— Bill Murray

#academy award #award #day #even #ever

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career. ↗

— David Naughton

#art #career #dramatic #i #london

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#always #astronaut #attended #based #because

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.' ↗

— Tara Reid

#academy award #award #done #dream #everything

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#actor #calls #college #cops #experience

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#academy award #always #approach #award #been

I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support. ↗

— Jahangir Khan

#after #following #i #juniors #open

A lot of the ideas or even individual technologies behind Khan Academy are not novel. ↗

— Salman Khan

#behind #even #ideas #individual #khan