I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.

The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.

The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.

If you can answer the question of why you’re doing it, it’s the right thing to do.

We are built with a passion in our heart for the things that we're meant to do.

I definitely need clarity.