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

A sunset will color your dreams.And a sunrise will color your smile.It's all God asks.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.

We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap.

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

When leaders behave consistently with the expectations of customers, they are doing things inside their organization that deliver value outside.

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.