Shredded feelings are the fuel that feed the machinery of melodrama. And good melodrama just has honest feelings and is honest about the way people interact.

I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.

I'm starting to frighten myself, because I'm backsliding into my devil-may-care attitude. I'm sure it's going to catch up with me.

I've never made movies to reach millions of people.

I literally designed and built the sets myself, and I kind of liked it. I always gave myself eight weeks to do that - sometimes even 10 - and the shooting took five or six weeks.

I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.

If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway.

In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person.

You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.

I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!

Poor habits can invalidate your credibility and undermine your success in all areas.

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

I try to act out of faith.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision.

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher