When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.

I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.