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

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

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.

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

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.

I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.