Quotes by Philippe Falardeau

Philippe Falardeau

Again, something that’s very strange and odd, you will find sometimes that immigrants that have been here for many years and already have their citizenship might be the ones against additional immigration. We’ve seen that also.

Immigration

Might

Years

Any place where you have to deal with many social actors like a school – you have the parents, the Ministry of Education, the school board, and the teachers – you need all kinds of sets and rules. You’re trying to foresee anything that can happen and everything becomes really rigid. They don’t want to talk about death because they don’t want to overwhelm the children, but that has already happened, so you’re not going to overwhelm them more.

Children

School

Teacher

At the end, what I like is that it’s the girl’s decision to go back in the room. She needs a hug, she wants a hug, she asks for a hug and he gives it to her. For me, it’s like an act of resistance to go there and to transgress the taboo and to do what started the whole thing in the beginning. It was supposedly a hug that started this whole drama between the character of Simon and the teacher.

Drama

Girl

Teacher

Even if I knew that Separation would probably win, when they announced the film, I was thinking to myself “Oh! I want this! I want this!” And so, when we didn’t win, I got depressed for about 20 minutes, and then I snapped out of it and enjoyed the rest of the evening.

Thinking

Want

Winning

For sure, and we haven’t found it yet. I understand why we have come to a time and place where we cannot touch the children at school for obvious reasons. I’m not that old, but back then some teacher would take our arm and squeeze it, and it was not fun.

Children

Fun

Teacher

Getting it off the ground is one thing because it has to do with finding the proper people and the financing, but finding the subject is another thing and this is always for me the most difficult part.

Difficult

Findings

People

I didn’t want the film to be didactic, and this is tough because if you look at the list of issues, you have immigration, the education system, you have the grieving, you have suicide. I think what saved me were two things. I tried to do everything with some level of restraint and let the spectator make up his own mind.

Grieving

Suicide

Thinking

I don’t like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you’d better get used to it and you’d better enjoy it.

Oscars

Stuff

Used

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you’re not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one.

Okay

Oscars

Relief

I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is not in the play, so this relationship that he had with the former teacher, and his guilt, this is not at all in the play. I thought it would be interesting to look at in the film, and I added stuff like that around the main character. For me, it was not more difficult or less difficult.

Boys

Character

Teacher

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Bad Friend

Becoming

Book

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Canada

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Cities

Country

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Done

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Eye

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Firsts

Fun

Girl

Girlfriend

Giving

Goal

Grateful

Grieving

Hollywood

Home

Hug

Immigration

Israel

Jobs

Kids

Land

Language

Long

Looks

Mean

Memories

Might

Military

Mistake

Names

Night

Okay

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Quotes by Philippe Falardeau

Philippe Falardeau

Again, something that’s very strange and odd, you will find sometimes that immigrants that have been here for many years and already have their citizenship might be the ones against additional immigration. We’ve seen that also.

Even if I knew that Separation would probably win, when they announced the film, I was thinking to myself “Oh! I want this! I want this!” And so, when we didn’t win, I got depressed for about 20 minutes, and then I snapped out of it and enjoyed the rest of the evening.

For sure, and we haven’t found it yet. I understand why we have come to a time and place where we cannot touch the children at school for obvious reasons. I’m not that old, but back then some teacher would take our arm and squeeze it, and it was not fun.

Getting it off the ground is one thing because it has to do with finding the proper people and the financing, but finding the subject is another thing and this is always for me the most difficult part.

I don’t like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you’d better get used to it and you’d better enjoy it.

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you’re not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one.

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