Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

What I do for a living and how I unwind are one and the same; it's a rare special thing.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.

In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.

People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.

He was a glass half full kind of person and she was...what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.

Women distrust men too much in general and too little in particular.

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.

A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.

Most artists are surrealists

[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.

It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.