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

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

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

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

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.

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.

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.