It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cove….

We're still staring at TV screens, right? They're still monitors. But the way information is delivered is different. So it creates an interesting way….

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best..

The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; ….

Every actor has a different temperament. Part of my job is to know what those boundaries are. The actor has to know you'll be there at the other end,….

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of ….

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the c….

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

Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire..

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….

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….

I just think I love the process of making films. It's not tortuous for me at all. I love being with my crew. I love actors. There's a joy to the proc….

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….

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….

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….

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 t….

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues ….

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 ….

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 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….