Canada Quote by Kristen Hager

You have a lot more freedom to explore and improvise in a Canadian film, which you might not have when there's 13 different production…

— Kristen Hager

Generally Canadian films are smaller. I think the market here is a tenth of the size of the States. So there's less resources to…

— Kristen Hager

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that…

— Philip Kaufman

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money…

— Atom Egoyan

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty…

— Ellen Page

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

— Atom Egoyan

In Canada, you do smaller movies that maybe nobody sees, but you get to do bigger, better parts.

— Emily Hampshire

In Canada, we have a very good structure of supporting film through a number of government-sponsored initiatives, such as the tax credit and other…

— Alfons Adetuyi

By far, the content of Canadian films. You're able to push the envelope in ways you can't in the U.S., I find. But also,…

— Kristen Hager

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money…

— Penelope Spheeris

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.

— Callie Khouri

We have a conservative government that only thinks in terms of efficiency. They are spending a lot of money on military expenses and less…

— Philippe Falardeau