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….

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….

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….

What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would do my homework and I think I could do a decent jo….

It's a romantic view of Canada. It's like Michael Moore saying we don't lock our doors in Canada. I lock my door mainly because my girlfriend wants m….

Even if I knew that Separation would probably win, when they announced the film, I was thinking to myself "Oh! I want this! I want this!" And so, whe….

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….

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….

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….