When I look down at this golden statue, may it remind me and every little child that no matter where you’re from your dreams are valid.
–Lupita Nyong’o, Academy Award acceptance speech, 2014, 12 Years a Slave
06 Friday Jun 2014
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inWhen I look down at this golden statue, may it remind me and every little child that no matter where you’re from your dreams are valid.
–Lupita Nyong’o, Academy Award acceptance speech, 2014, 12 Years a Slave
24 Saturday May 2014
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I grew up in a place called Alcobendas, where this was not a very realistic dream. And I, always the night of the Academy Awards I stay up to watch the show. And I always felt that this was, that this ceremony was a moment of unity for the world, because art, in any form, is and has been and will always be our universal language and we should do everything we can, everything we can to protect its survival.
–Penelope Cruz, Academy Award acceptance speech, 2009, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
21 Wednesday May 2014
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I want to thank the Academy and I also want to thank my junior high guidance counselor for a meeting we had where he asked me, “What do you want to do with your life?” And I said, “I want to make movies.” And he said, “What else do you want to do with your life?” And I said, “Make movies.” And he said, “What if you couldn’t make movies?” And I said, “I’d have to find a way that I could.” “What if movies didn’t exist?” “I’d have to invent them.” And it went on like this till we were sick of each other.”
–Brad Bird, Academy Award acceptance speech, 2007, Ratatouille