It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

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.

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.

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth, " when it is clearly "Ocean.

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.

If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.

And what if---what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you're nothing?

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.