Philippe Falardeau Quotes

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

- Philippe Falardeau

When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of documentaries about huge films, like 'Gladiator.' That couldn't be more apart from what I'm doing, but you see Ridley Scott facing huge problems and fixing them.

- Philippe Falardeau

In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal.

- Philippe Falardeau

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

- Philippe Falardeau

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

- Philippe Falardeau

I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.

- Philippe Falardeau

I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where the main character is a woman. I cannot write that film.

- Philippe Falardeau

In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.

- Philippe Falardeau

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

- Philippe Falardeau

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.

- Philippe Falardeau

Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.

- Philippe Falardeau

In Canada, we have so much land, so much space, and so few people.

- Philippe Falardeau