#award

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#academy awards #audience #awards #conversation #film

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances. ↗

— Jeffrey Tambor

#else #emmy #ensemble #everyone #howling

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#award #awards #because #consider #creating

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. ↗

— John Corigliano

#become #completely #composer #great #i

I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards & his issue--among others--with the judging system, 1981) ↗

— Jack McClelland

#awards #humor #judging #publishers #publishing

Death Notice, ...... “He was offended with his wife, and went and hanged himself.” 10 Jun 1817 ↗

— Boston Recorder

#epitaph #death

No person writes to win awards. ↗

— Mo Yan

#person #win #writes

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#awards #because #good #guaranteed #i

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work. ↗

— Linda Fiorentino

#award #end #get #in the end #work

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#away #because #been #color #creed