Occupation: Film Director Birth: 1968
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….
If you look at the end of the movie [Monsegnor Lahzar], I give a lot of space to what the spectator can also imagine of what's going to be Bachir's l….
I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one..
Again, something that's very strange and odd, you will find sometimes that immigrants that have been here for many years and already have their citiz….
The teacher will never be a parent. The parents are the parents. But they have to engage in some sort of active education beyond just teaching mathem….
If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation. In this play, I had a strong main character and it involved some creation….
If you read Herodotus, the first Greek historian 2,500 years ago, he was talking about that - about people mixing with other people. Sometimes it pro….
I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in a foreign language, but certain….
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….
Some people around me said "Get a tux and live this and enjoy this" and that's what I did. It was a fun experience. On the red carpet, I was just beh….
I will see 100 or 200 and I will take my time with them and I audition them for the two main roles. If I like what I see, but they're not exactly rig….
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 ….
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 didn't want the film to be didactic, and this is tough because if you look at the list of issues, you have immigration, the education system, you h….
When I want to tackle a story or a subject, I always ask myself three questions: Is it important to talk about that? Will it interest other people th….
For sure, and we haven't found it yet. I understand why we have come to a time and place where we cannot touch the children at school for obvious rea….
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 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….
That's grossing money for other people that has a multiplying factor, but the government doesn't see that. It doesn't see that making a film or cultu….
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….