My job, in the end, was to serve and protect, to assure that John's music was not being frivolously cut into little pieces. Slowly, John realized that he didn't have to fight for every note .

When The Red Violin came along, it seemed like a film that would eliminate a lot of those things, because it's about the music.

If you think of a composer when he sits down to write, it's just him and a piece of paper. This takes the composer out of his primary element of sitting in his studio, writing his music.

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Poetry is the use of imagery in making verses that are palatable than sweet potatoes.

I've been told this reminds some of the East German days. But the difference is this one was genuine.