It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'
“It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'”
— Ethan Coen · Academy
The World Motivation
It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'
“It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'”
— Ethan Coen · Academy
It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'
I think some superstars feel they get trapped in their established screen persona over and over again. That's what they get hired to do.
Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.
'I Love You, Man' was kind of funny.
I don't know we have a method. We show up at the office. Is that a method? That's about the extent to which it's been formalized, asystematised. We show up at the office and talk, talk a scene through.
I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.
Surprise! Surprise! An Academy Award nomination and suddenly you're outed? Did I mind? Oh, very, very much.
I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.
I mean, my understanding is that the live-action and the comic book versions of the Umbrella Academy' will parallel with each other while still keeping their distance, so that fans of the comic books who have already read the storyline has something new to look forward to and in approaching a new season.
Academies can also flog off land and buildings, if the much weakened local authorities agree. Serious money can be made, management salaries are high, and hidden in all this is the long-term public subsidy in such sites.