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I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

My home is Montreal. I will stay in Montreal and continue to make movies in Montreal. But it's also very healthy for Canadian filmmakers to work outside the country. You learn so much.

My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

I look at Canada like a second home.