Quote:
"I felt that in creating a filmic translation of [the novel] Suspicious River, less would be way more. I couldn't attempt a literal translation because it would be almost unwatchable."
-- Lynne Stopkewich

Source:
Paakspuu, Kalli. "I Like Telling Stories That Are Off the Beaten Track." Interview with Lynne Stopkewich. In The Young, the Restless, and the Dead: Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers, edited by George Melnyk. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008. (p. 76)