A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.