I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.

Directing 'The Office' is kind of like someone going, 'Would you like to drive my Lamborghini?' And I'm like 'Yes, I would like to drive your Lamborghini. That sounds like fun.'

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

I'm a believer that people need to understand that filmmaking is not a perfect process for anybody. It is a process in which you find the film and the film finds you. And that is every film.

With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later.

The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.

God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.

Effort supposes resistance.

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win.

I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

There is no effort without error or shortcoming.