Cinema Quote by 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

A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face…

— Kristen Hager

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

— Emily Hampshire

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

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

As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

— Karine Vanasse

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

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

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

I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here.

— Kevin Zegers

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

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another…

— Rowan Atkinson