I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Rather be dead than cool.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable.

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.