Biography

Money is a poor man's credit card.

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvelous resources.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

[Charlie Chaplin as a metaphor] He found himself isolated and he became the lonely little tramp. His gripe against America was that it was so American. He never took his camera inside an American home, not once. Because when Americans go home they change from one hemisphere to another. They cease to be extroverts: they become introvert and ordinary. But the moment they step outside their homes they go out to fight, fight, fight.

[on employment in the future] People tend to acquire multiple jobs. And with the computer at home, the cottage economy returns via the computer terminal at home. The idea of going out to work becomes obsolete. And therefore the car will tend to be used only as an entertainment medium.