Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

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.

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.

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.

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.