Filmmakers he considers his biggest influences: Claude Jutra, Sidney J. Furie, Nicolas Roeg, John Cassavetes, Jacques Rivette, Joseph Losey, Robert Altman, Andrei Tarkovsky, the team of Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. Favorite films include: Mon Oncle Antoine, The Leather Boys, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Ipcress File, Kamouraska, La Belle Noiseuse, Celine and Julie Go Boating, A Woman Under the Influence, Dear Mr. Wonderful, L'Atalante, The Cloud-Capped Star (1960), Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Profound Desire of the Gods, Hester Street, Montreal Main, and Andrei Rublev.