May 19, 2008
Indy
"I can say that if you liked the other Indiana Jones movies, you will like this one, and that if you did not, there is no talking to you. "
- Roger Ebert
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March 21, 2008
Educate
If you are planning for a year, sow rice
if you are planning for a decade, plant trees
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
~ Chinese proverb
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March 04, 2008
Gotta' speak to be heard ..
"People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing."
- Walter Judd
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March 03, 2008
Red Heads
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March 02, 2008
One more time ..
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
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February 29, 2008
Joke's on us
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
- Aristotle
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February 27, 2008
Bob Uecker Day
I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.
- Bob Uecker
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February 26, 2008
It's A Wonderful Oscar ...
Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.
- Kathy Bates
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February 25, 2008
There Will Be Blood
"My favorite movie of the year was the one about the heartless con man who's obsessed with finding oil. Its called No End In Sight."
- Bill Maher
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The Oscar After-Glow ...
"That was fantastic. I loved it. That was funny and smart. Isn't it great when it's all over?"
- Helen Mirren to Jon Stewart
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"Getting a text from Bono is the biggest thing that can happen to an Irishman."
- Glen Hansard on congratulations from Bono
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"I'm totally overwhelmed with joy and then sparkles and fireworks and everything which goes like bam, bam, bam!"
- Marion Cotillard
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"I'm feeling tremendously relieved that I don't have to go home and explain to all my friends and family about why it didn't happen. Great joy, actually. It's a lovely marker."
- Daniel Day-Lewis, not going home empty-handed
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''I'm an absolute dummy with a computer...so I can't speak to what's happening today so much. But I do miss the community that we had then. People seemed to work together more in those days. They are more separate these days.... I think you have the tools now that you can do anything. Unfortunately, very often you do everything. Discipline in art is also very important. The things you don't say are sometimes as important as what you do say. And if you do too much, you destroy the point you are trying to make.''
- Robert Boyle
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''He's elderly and unhappy, probably not well.''
- Ethan Coen when asked about Roderick Jaynes
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February 24, 2008
BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
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These two gentlemen [to Joel and Ethan Coen], I can't think of anybody I would rather be standing here with than the two of you. Thank you so much for this.
Everybody at Vantage and Miramax who financed the movie together. The entire team at Miramax who did a brilliant, brilliant job selling it. Thank you to all of them.
I want to thank Mark Roybal, It's a pleasure to work with him every day.
I want to thank my friend, Sydney Pollack, who taught me that with the responsibility -- with the opportunity to make movies comes the responsibility of making them good. This for him.
- Scott Rudin, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen on accepting the Oscar for "No Country for Old Men"
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ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Ethan Coen:
I don't have a lot to add to what I said earlier. Thank you.
Joel Coen:
Ethan and I have been making stories with movie cameras since we were kids. In the late '60s when Ethan was 11 or 12, he got a suit and a briefcase and we went to the Minneapolis International Airport with a Super 8 camera and made a movie about shuttle diplomacy called "Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go." And honestly, what we do now doesn't feel that much different from what we were doing then. There are too many people to thank for this. We're really thrilled to have received it, and we're very thankful to all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox, so thank you very much.
- Joel and Ethan Coen on accepting the Oscar for "No Country for Old Men"
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PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
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My deepest thanks to the members of the Academy for whacking me with the handsomest bludgeon in town. I'm looking at this gorgeous thing you've given me and I'm thinking back to the first devilish whisper of an idea that came to him and everything since and it seems to me that this sprang like a golden sapling out of the mad, beautiful head of Paul Thomas Anderson.
I wish my son and my partner HW Plainview were up here with me, the mighty Dillon Freasier. So many people to thank. One amongst them would be Mrs. Plainview down there, the enchantingly optimistic, open-minded and beautiful Rebecca Miller.
I hope that all those to whom I owe and to whom I feel the deepest gratitude will forgive me if I say just simply, "Thank you, Paul."
I've been thinking a lot about fathers and sons in the course of this, and I'd like to accept this in the memory of my grandfather, Michael Balcon, my father, Cecil Day-Lewis, and my three fine boys, Gabriel, Ronan and Cashel. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you.
- Daniel Day-Lewis on receiving the Oscar for "There Will Be Blood"
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ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
What is happening? This is for the writers, and I want to thank all the writers. I especially want to thank my fellow nominees because I worship you guys and I'm learning from you every day, so thank you very much. I want to thank the Academy, I want to thank Fox Searchlight, Mr. Mudd, Mandate, Dan Dubiecki. I want to thank our incredible cast including the superhuman Ellen Page. I want to thank Jason Reitman, who I consider a member of my family, and I'm in awe of his talent as a filmmaker. I want to thank Sarah Self. I want to thank Mason Novick who knew I could do this before I did. And most of all, I want to thank my family for loving me exactly the way I am.
- Diablo Cody on receiving the Oscar for "Juno"
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BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Cynthia Wade:
Thank you. It was Lieutenant Laurel Hester's dying wish that her fight for, against discrimination would make a difference for all the same sex couples across the country that face discrimination every day. Discrimination that I don't face as a married woman. Sheila Nevins and HBO for making this film have a broadcast and a home on Cinemax later this year. To my husband Matthew Syrett, who took care of our children and held down a full-time job so that we could make this film. And to our incredible team in New York, thank you so much.
Vanessa Roth:
And to all our supporters and families who believe that even a 38-minute movie could change minds and lives and our children who remind us about what's really important. And to Stacie, who's here tonight, who's really auto mechanic by day but hero in life who always did what was right. And she's here tonight. So thank you so much.
Cynthia Wade:
Thank you.
- Vanessa Roth and Cynthia Wade on accepting the Oscar for "Freeheld"
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