Canadian Screenwriter Quotes

David Cronenberg

Mordecai Richler

David Morrell

Robert J. Sawyer

Timothy Findley

Paul Quarrington

David Edgar

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

The wild geese were passing over - passing over the haunts of man in their remote seeking toward the swamps of the south. They marked the beginning and the end of the period of growth.

Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he does, he's utterly indifferent to our individual affairs--but we can't let the rabble know that; it's the fear of God, the threat of divine punishment and the promise of divine reward, that keeps in line those too unsophisticated to work out questions of morality on their own.

Robert J. Sawyer

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

Mordecai Richler

With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence — the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality — to perfection.

Damian Pettigrew

The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.

David Cronenberg

All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.

Timothy Findley

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

So if you don't have money to offer to people, you must strike their imagination with something as nice as you can think of.

Martin Villeneuve

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

David Adams Richards

Everybody is damaged goods. Everybody got bumps and dents, ja? But sometimes two people fit together, and the bumps go into the dents, and you have a whole thing like a potato.

Paul Quarrington

When I heard I was up for it, obviously I wanted to win. It's really an honour. I love playing for my country.

Sometimes you just gotta trust that your secret's been kept long enough.