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

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.

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'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 crowd] will finally succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times.

I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.