I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made out of my past, not the elimination of that mess.

Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are.

A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.

I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

Pain isn't always the enemy.

Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.