I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one. — Philippe Falardeau Business Copy Share Image
I was interested in immigration and I wanted to use that in the film, not necessarily to talk about immigrants, although I… — Philippe Falardeau Backgrounds Copy Share Image
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… — Philippe Falardeau Back home Copy Share Image
The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg. — Philippe Falardeau Behind Copy Share Image
There is some humor in Monsieur Lazhar and in all my other films, but this one I'll try to make a real… — Philippe Falardeau Comedy Copy Share Image
I will see 100 or 200 and I will take my time with them and I audition them for the two main… — Philippe Falardeau Auditions Copy Share Image
I teach myself archaeology, I teach myself Spanish, and that's because it can be fun, it can be useful. So I keep… — Philippe Falardeau Archaeology Copy Share Image
I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government,… — Philippe Falardeau Artistic Copy Share Image
Even if I knew that Separation would probably win, when they announced the film, I was thinking to myself "Oh! I want… — Philippe Falardeau Enjoyed Copy Share Image
In the private system and the private schools, the principal is pretty much a dictator. He or she can hire whoever s/he… — Philippe Falardeau Courses Copy Share Image
If you read Herodotus, the first Greek historian 2,500 years ago, he was talking about that - about people mixing with other… — Philippe Falardeau Country Copy Share Image
Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras. — Philippe Falardeau Actor Copy Share Image
We also have this reflex of using specialists for everything, instead of having the person who is there every day with them,… — Philippe Falardeau Bits Copy Share Image
I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny. — Philippe Falardeau Funny Copy Share Image
The teacher will never be a parent. The parents are the parents. But they have to engage in some sort of active… — Philippe Falardeau Accepting Copy Share Image
When you're younger, and you do your first or second film, you want to show everyone what you can do. — Philippe Falardeau Cinema Copy Share Image
I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where… — Philippe Falardeau Cannot Copy Share Image
Any place where you have to deal with many social actors like a school - you have the parents, the Ministry of… — Philippe Falardeau Actors Copy Share Image
Again, something that's very strange and odd, you will find sometimes that immigrants that have been here for many years and already… — Philippe Falardeau Citizenship Copy Share Image
In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we… — Philippe Falardeau City Copy Share Image
I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in… — Philippe Falardeau Categories Copy Share Image
If you look at the end of the movie [Monsegnor Lahzar], I give a lot of space to what the spectator can… — Philippe Falardeau Didactic Copy Share Image
At the end, what I like is that it's the girl's decision to go back in the room. She needs a hug,… — Philippe Falardeau Asks Copy Share Image
If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation. — Philippe Falardeau Creation Copy Share Image
What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would… — Philippe Falardeau College Copy Share Image
