I do think you fall in love when you feel that something of your story is being listened to for the first time, or you feel someone else is hearing it as no one else has ever done.

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.

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.

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.

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

And it only hurts when I'm breathing My heart only breaks when it's beating My dreams only die when I'm dreaming So, I hold my breath--to forget

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]

Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.