Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire.

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.

Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

To the royal guards of this realm, we are all victims in-waiting.

I would love to fly privately, but unfortunately, I don't. I don't summer anywhere either.

I don't believe in the landscape.

The yoga of love is the yoga of acceptance. Love teaches us that which is most important is self-acceptance.

Strength is the outcome of need.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.