Piers Handling Films Quotations

French films are increasingly taking pride of place. The number of French films at the Festival is second only to the US and Canada.

I think we have seen fewer international films that have dealt with explicit sexuality. It seems that the rest of the world has moved on from that, but maybe it's just a temporary aberration this year.

American Beauty' really reinforced in Hollywood's eyes the idea that Toronto could actually break a film that was very important. They came here and gathered acclaim and critical support that lasted through the Oscars. Subsequent to that, virtually every year, we've had a significant number of films here that later came out with nominations and Oscars.

Increasingly a lot of key films are coming to film festivals, ... You'll notice even Hollywood is beginning to take some of its riskier, more dangerous, darker material.

Increasingly a lot of key films are coming to film festivals. You'll notice even Hollywood is beginning to take some of its riskier, more dangerous, darker material.

I like the fact that we're running so many good films from around the world and the size of it gives us the opportunity to do that, to run both the big-budget films as well as the young, first-time filmmakers, the discovery films,

in every group of films from every continent.