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.

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.

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.

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

If left unexecuted, even the greatest competitive strategies are not worth the paper on which they were written.

The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own.

whatever you become be good at it

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.

The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.