#awards

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#awards #because #conditions #directors #film

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. ↗

— George W. Bush

#distinctions #done #honours #i #president

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#audience #awards #earn #earning #get

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#article #awards #bit #ceremony #completely

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#awards #battle #between #big #doomed

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#because #complaints #got #her #i

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#awards #cleaned #conway #country #country music

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#awards #because #believe #concerned #english

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job. ↗

— William Petersen

#been #business #decent #good #good work

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. ↗

— Robert Plant

#awards #cliche #crucial #drifting #i