I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

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.

Would you wish that someone about cares you?Start care about someone, Then will you definitely deserve at least one person who cares about you!

Be persistent like a mosquito, at the end you will get your bite

A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.

The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.

There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

I must say that the more you give, the more you get. Being able to find solutions, to help other people is extremely gratifying.

Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

Government is best which governs least