I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

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

As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.

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

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.

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.