To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.
Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'
I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'
I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.
I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, 'I hope we can use our art for peace and love.'
The best thing that winning those Academy Awards things are - the best thing of it is that when I say some of my ideas, somebody's going to listen to it, and they'll preface what I say, 'Academy Award winner da-da-da-da-da.'
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC.
The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.
