We're lucky to be making films. My crew and I have been working together for a long time. I think that that's what emanates.

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.

An ideologue is one who places agenda above truth.

You are not what your critics say you are. You are wonderful sacred-soul.

Magic is always an illusion and love a magic of illusion.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

Yes. I didn't think there were any witnesses, so I guess I'll have to kill you too.

We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.