It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.

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.

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

It is considered as conduct when it comes into exact understanding.

No one can do the learning for you.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

Use volleyball quotes to motivate your teammates to play hard.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.