Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

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.

You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!

Adversity is preparation for greatness.

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

Initially let your food do the talking. You'll be surprised how far you go in a short period of time.

Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling and marriage.

I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls