I teach myself archaeology, I teach myself Spanish, and that's because it can be fun, it can be useful. So I keep studying. I read books because I st….

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….

It's cool that we got rid of that, but we got rid of everything - the encouraging pat on the back or even a hug which I find can be acceptable in som….

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'….

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 ….

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….

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….

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 notion, the invention of a country, is fairly new in the history of mankind. We tend to forget that. We want to protect our country. The country ….

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….

Any place where you have to deal with many social actors like a school - you have the parents, the Ministry of Education, the school board, and the t….

There is some humor in Monsieur Lazhar and in all my other films, but this one I'll try to make a real comedy from start to finish. It's called Presc….

Now I realize that I have to let everyone take what they have to take from the film. No matter what I think about the film, it becomes a little irrel….

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….

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..

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….

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….

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 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….

It's like a laboratory, a micro-society of real life, so it didn't look odd to talk about bureaucracy. In the school, in the class, there are already….

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….