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….

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

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out]..

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….

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 ….

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; ….

I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and s….

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

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

I’m Armenian, and April 24th was another commemoration of the genocide of Armenia people by Turkey. The perpetrator never admitted the crime. I was r….

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

I'm obsessed with this idea of storytellers and people who have a narrative, and sometimes sustain a relationship because they're telling a narrative….

That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 mil….

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….

One of the huge advantages of shooting in the winter is that locations that wouldn't have been available to us suddenly were, like Yorkville. ... It'….

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….

I think entire social groups are formed through technologies that could never exist in the real world, and relationships that are a function of these….

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,….

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….