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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."
"I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say."
"My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration."
"You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion."
"I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself."
"But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational."
"As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities."
"In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there."
"The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons."
"With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from."
"My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about."
"Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment."
"But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder."
"I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly."
"Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?"
"Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't."
"I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself."
"The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition."
"It's weird. Prior to having my first record, Corey Hart was just my name."
"For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors."
"No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion."
"There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general."
"Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world."
"The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old."
"The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'."
"Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war."
"There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more."
"I only want people around me who can do the impossible."
"I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here."
"The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me."
"There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive."
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
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