Canadian Film Industry Quotes

The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.

I have joy. Canadians have the reputation of making dark movies because we are in this society where we have the space to explore darkness. That's the way I see it.

I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.

I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here. Someone like Ryan Gosling shouldn't have to come back here because it's a Canadian movie. He should want to come back because some of the best movies are being made here.

The director is a Canadian, Jeff Stephenson, and any time I get a script that has any Canadian component, I'm always immediately much more interested.

The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.

In Canada, I've had success raising money. I think I was fortunate enough. But today, I would have to write a very, very bad script not to be financed for the next one. I'm assured at least of the next one, but you're always [only] as good as your last film. I think it's true for anyone.

I see a lot of things I'm so excited and hopeful about film and TV in Canada. There's just a huge movement, I think, in seeking an identity as Canadians, and really forging it and really embracing all the parts of us as Canadians that come from such varied experiences and such varied cultures. And I think there are strong voices that come out.

I'd love to shoot something in Toronto; I'd love to bring something to Canada. I'm dying to shoot something in Vancouver where I'm from.

Canada's a small market. I think sometimes we do too much of supporting American stories in Hollywood and not enough supporting our own.

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards.

It's something I want to do going forward - make a movie that is commercial and universal and will play in any movie theater or living room in the States or the UK, but is definitively Canadian. I don't think there's such a thing as prohibitively Canadian.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.

As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

I have done a lot of sci-fi, not out of choice, necessarily. It's just that I'm Canadian, and it's more cost-efficient to film sci-fi up here.

I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here.

I've seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.