My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's because of happenstance. But very often, it's mysterious to them.

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 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.

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.