I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

I teach myself archaeology, I teach myself Spanish, and that's because it can be fun, it can be useful. So I keep studying. I read books because I still want to study. I don't want to stop.

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

I work, play and do everything in French.

In Canada, we have so much land, so much space, and so few people.

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think its the same thing for a country.

I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one.

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

Do you suppose it's true, that St. Patrick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew?

Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

Kill one and you might as well kill 21.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.