Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

May the Saviour set us free from every evil spirit.

Do your parents know you’re here?' asked the lady at social Services. ‘No, ’ I said, ‘but I want to know about children’s homes.’ I had to stand on my toes to see over the reception desk.

Only dead fishes go with the flow.. I guess that make me a dead fish!

She likes you, she just doesn't understand you.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

The original plan was that James Wan would direct the pilot [of MacGyver ] but it didn't work out, and then it did, which is great. I'm a huge fan.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.