Try To Produce Your Own Films, Avoid

The Biggest Problem With The Independent Film Sector In Toronto Is That They Find Themselves Having To Make That Budget Show On Screen.

I Think In The '80s, When I Started Making Films, We Were All Suspicious Of These Technologies. We Were All Convinced They Would Filter Out Any Emotion And Sense Of Intimacy, And The Films I Made During That Period Reflected That. In Fact, What Has Happened Is The Opposite. I Think We're Saturated With A Degree Of Intimacy We Would Never Have Expected, And We're Trying To Sort Through This Idea Of Complete Access To Each Other's Lives On An Ongoing Basis. Our Emotions Aren't Filtered Out At All. They're Actually Accelerated.

I Wanted To Make Sure That The Environment Of The Shooting Itself Was Not That Controlled, And The Way To Go About That Course Was To Work With As Small A Crew As Possible.

Working On The Themes I Was Interested In, Through The Context Of A Particular Family, Was A Very Economical Way Of Dealing With A Lot Of The Issues I Was Concerned With.

I Think Entire Social Groups Are Formed Through Technologies That Could Never Exist In The Real World, And Relationships That Are A Function Of These Technologies' Ability To Accelerate Feeling And Emotional Contact.