We also have this reflex of using specialists for everything, instead of having the person who is there every day with them, the teacher, talk about ….

I try to set up a playful atmosphere on the set so that they don't get tired too easily. They know it's work but they can also have fun, and when it'….

Getting it off the ground is one thing because it has to do with finding the proper people and the financing, but finding the subject is another thin….

In Canada, I've had success raising money. I think I was fortunate enough. But today, I would have to write a very, very bad script not to be finance….

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it..

I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government, because it means when I get the mone….

We get through life and this is part of the education process also. In real life, we meet bad bosses and good bosses and good friends and bad friends….

The irony is I did an intimate film in France with no stars and that got me to Hollywood. It got me to the Oscars. If I had tried to imitate the Amer….

In the private system and the private schools, the principal is pretty much a dictator. He or she can hire whoever s/he wants. Of course, in the movi….

It's the same challenge as with any other character, adults or not. You want to take time with the kids. You want to tell them in the audition that t….

We have a conservative government that only thinks in terms of efficiency. They are spending a lot of money on military expenses and less and less on….

If you look at the Oscars and look at the Best Foreign Language series, you see that the films are coming from everywhere - from Quebec, Israel, Pola….

My film is in French. It's not something folkloric. It's who we are. There's this tension about immigrants coming in. Will they learn French? Will th….

My film is actually very critical of the level of French we're using back home. To have an immigrant from an ancient French colony come and do that i….

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individu….

At the end, what I like is that it's the girl's decision to go back in the room. She needs a hug, she wants a hug, she asks for a hug and he gives it….

I was interested in immigration and I wanted to use that in the film, not necessarily to talk about immigrants, although I wanted to do that, but to ….

One particular night I was at the theater. I was not scouting for a project, but I was touched by this play by Évelyne de la Chenelière. I was touche….

Sometimes it's about the economic situation and sometimes it's about the fear of others. Sometimes it's about protecting the generally accepted value….

I work, play and do everything in French..

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg..