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.

That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

I do think you fall in love when you feel that something of your story is being listened to for the first time, or you feel someone else is hearing it as no one else has ever done.

The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth.

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.