| "I'd like to thank them (my fans) for seeing the invisible." USA Interview 7/14/01 "I love Quebec. It’s home. When I’m away for a long time I clearly miss it.(I miss) My friends, my land, my house. But I also miss everything that makes us what we are. We are very distinctive. It’s not just that we speak the way we do. Only we talk about things the way we talk about things. So, it’s only people from around here that can really communicate with me … only locals can really ‘talk’ to me, in our words, with our humour, our thoughts, our culture. I can’t find any of that anywhere else." 7 Jours 6/30/01 "I think it’s very good to go away in order to be able to appreciate where you come from. You have to travel to do that. I think it’s also very good to get to know the world, to see, smell and taste other things. I love to travel, and I would like to do more. At the moment the Himalayas appeal to me for the culture and the mountains. I would also like to go to Nepal and Vietnam before it’s too late. Some day I might go and work elsewhere, but one thing is certain – I’ll return to Quebec." 7 Jours 6/30/01 "I can tell you that psychoanalysis is the best journey I’ve made. It’s a journey through my whole life. It’s fascinating ….There are important events that have happened that you have completely forgotten, and that you discover through psychoanalysis. It allows you to remember them, and that’s remarkable. It’s one of the best presents I’ve given myself. Thanks to it you learn to know yourself, to really know what you like and not what you think you should like. You also learn to understand human mechanisms in general, and that’s no bad thing in my line of work. You have to be inquisitive to do psychoanalysis, you have to want to do it. You have to love life, and to love humanity. All to be more alert, more uninhibited." 7 Jours 6/30/01 The following quotes are all from the Nuvo Magazine Autumn 2001 Vol. 04 Issue No. 03. ”There is entertaining and then there is art, and then there is both. I appreciate coming out of a movie and taking a long walk and not even talking –I’ve felt something.” “What have I been doing, well, just before Christmas my grand-aunt of 104 died. She gave me a lot in life. Then on the 26th of December my father died. This was a big surprise. It is the first time in my life that I've lost someone so intimately close to me.” ...“In a way death is full of life. What used to be outside of you is now inside of you.” “All the time I was shooting Nikita, I did the exterior of the house and now I’ve moved inside. I now have time to look at myself, inside myself, as I am inside the house. I had a lot of cleanup. I had to go through all the piles of stuff, all the things I’ve left behind or not completed – people or things I’ve let go. Now I’m cleaning up.” “I heard somewhere that the major discoveries in human history were language, the control of fire, and cinema. Yes, I wish to make a film one day.” “Maybe I’m positive because I’m curious and it’s constant learning. We are that kind of animal that can figure out things.” “Romantics like to build themselves a story, they like to provoke situations. Me, I’m simple gestures and truth, that’s all.” “I love life. Nature fascinates me. I try to accept reality for what it is and if I can make it better, make myself better, that’s evolution.” |
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