"We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician."

“My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.”

“I think a good director is a good listener.”

Source : "INTERVIEW | 'Incendies' Director Denis Villeneuve: 'I think a good director is a good listener'". Interview with Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. April 22, 2011.

“More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.”

“So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.”

“Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path you cannot have a "normal" life within the community. Your job is to stand outside the community and hold up the mirror.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.”

“The one key line used by a very rich Hudson salesman: Would you like to buy a car now, without waiting?”

“As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.”