Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing.

The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.

Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway.

Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world.

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.