But this (The Life) is not that. I'm not doing this for money. I'm doing this because the script is really strong. I read the first script for Da Vinci's Inquest and I went 'Oh, man, who is this guy? This is great writing.' And five years later he (Haddock) calls me
Vancouver Province 3/2/03

They're really out there to help and a lot of people can use their help out there in the middle of the night.
Movie-Television 11/15/03

The situations that these people exist in is just, it defies belief at times. It's so impoverished and so desperate but they do have senses of humor about it. It's full of irony and kind of a hideous ugly wit, you know.
Movie-Television 11/15/03

I didn't get terribly close to the original story because it's based on a documentary that was shot by Al Arsenault and Toby Hinton and a group of cops here in Vancouver called "Through a Blue Lens". And they followed several addicts over the course of a couple of years, and some of those addicts had perished by the time we spent any time downtown. But we saw untold numbers of similar tragic stories down there during the time we did the research, which basically involved spending the night with these guys, walking the streets in downtown Vancouver.
Canada AM interview 9/1/04

We met the guys that did the film originally, did the documentary. And all of these guys, the one thing they have in common is they have this tremendous sense of responsibility to the people they grow to know down there. So, when they pull on their flak jackets before walking downtown it's not as though they're expecting anything, but hoping for the opportunity to help these people out. It was a real eye-opener for me.
Canada AM interview 9/1/04

I think addiction, particularly down there where it surrounds everybody and they're all destitute for the most part, it's a lot like being caught in a riptide. Just the minute you begin to think that you can keep yourself afloat something else, a new surge, comes in and sucks you back in.... So, for example, if somebody gets clean it's virtually impossible for them to stay clean if they don't have the support system of helping them find a place to live, helping them find a job, helping them cope with their addiction, the ongoing problem they have with sliding back towards addiction. And the support system really isn't in place once people have sort of broken out of that cycle through their own personal strength to keep them from being sucked back into it. So, it's sort of a self-perpetuating whirlpool of misery down there. Without the support of the government, without people realizing that it's virtually impossible to pull yourself out of it, without our support it's just not going to happen.
Canada AM interview 9/1/04

I would say the only caveat would be that CTV chose to bury this movie on a holiday weekend where it's not going to be seen, and didn't give us the lead time to promote it properly, I think, which is connected to wanting to prove that American programming is really the only thing that's going to bring in the numbers. So, they make that a self-fulfilling prophecy by burying the Canadian programming where they shouldn't.
Canada AM interview 9/1/04