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I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.

Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.

I'd rather be referred to as a precocious young Quebec talent, than not be referred to at all.

I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.

Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.

I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie.

To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire.

When I write a film, I have already made the trailer

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.

My first language is French. I just love words so much, and in French it feels like I can say whatever I want however I want.

I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.

Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.

The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.

I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.

For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.

I think anything is possible to anyone who dreams, dares, works and never gives up.

I love women in my heart but not in my undies.

I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.