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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time."
"It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy."
"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition."
"I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy."
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
"Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich."
"I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent."
"People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world."
"We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically."
"I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it."
"If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state."
"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness."
"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
"I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes."
"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 of film, there will always be an audience for you."
"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
"Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death."
"I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy."
"There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more."
"I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?"
"A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed."
"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy."
"There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable."
"I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them."
"I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure."
"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
"The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself."
"Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained."
"The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need."
"The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems."
"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."
"Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took."
"I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came."
"The sad fact is there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, the unjust taking of a loved being. And even the luckiest of us will encounter at least one murder in our own lives: our own. It is our fate. We all live a murder mystery of which we are the victim."
"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."
"When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite."
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud ."
"If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?"
"I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions."
"Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you."
"I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work."
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