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

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.

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'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.

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

It'll be the biggest decision of my life. Knowing me, I'll probably make the wrong choice.

You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe!

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.

To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.