You can blame us, but we only have ourselves to blame. The Oscars are awarded to filmmakers by their fellow filmmakers. I wonder sometimes if it is because we take ourselves so seriously as filmmakers. I wonder if we are desperate to authenticate the prestige that comes to us in the flickering shadows of fame. I wonder if it is because we are afraid to recognize that in the end we are little more than the circus sideshow of life.
Celebrity is a poisonous thing.
It creates value where none exists. It presumes importance in a world of irrelevance. I hope they have their own academy and receive the acknowledgments they deserve. Meanwhile, we of the Motion Picture Academy approach our responsibilities with grave sobriety and a sense of importance that should be reserved for challenges that change the destiny of mankind. But someone must do it.