Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.
“Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.”
“Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.”