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

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 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'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.

You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read.

Richard felt about as conspicuous as a foreskin at a Jewish nudist camp.

I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.

Don King sucks...Don King sucks...Don King sucks.

It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.

I've never retired. And I've never said, "I quit."

I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.