The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

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.

I work, play and do everything in French.

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

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.

Literature gives great light and great life.

Leaders don't pray to God for money. They simply ask for His grace to solve problems. By solving problems, the money comes.

What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha?

You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

I, Kim Heechul, was born to successfully make women fall in love with me. It's not my fault. It's not of my own free will. My mother and father created this face.

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

Christmas is not only where you find it; it's what you make of it.

There is a world elsewhere.