The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

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.

Satan will thrash about in one last burst of evil, hoping to capture as many souls as possible before his inevitable end.

I destroyed myself because I thought no one will destroy me that way but I guess I was wrong... they're stonger.

it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words —the color of a completely closed-in night

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.

The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.

My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.