Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences—and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn’t connect and, since the film is ….

I think in the '80s, when I started making films, we were all suspicious of these technologies. We were all convinced they would filter out any emoti….

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'….

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do….

The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set..

Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend..

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 f….

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 i….

I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as sm….

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family i….

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

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 o….

I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wr….

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

I find it deeply upsetting when I see justice not being served. How do we as human beings deal with the unknown? The West Memphis Three trial is a jo….

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and ver….

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 t….

We're lucky to be making films. My crew and I have been working together for a long time. I think that that's what emanates..

You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the ….

It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shootin….