The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations.

There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us.

I never make a film with a message in mind. I'm more interested in the characters; how they are related to each other and the situation they're in.

I try to be straight when I communicate with my audiences through a film. I'm not sure whether I have been successful. I don't watch my film once they're in theaters.

There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers.

I only see things that I shouldn't have done when I watch my film again.

You need your rest to feel your best!

The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.

My feeling is that whatever people elect to do, insofar as they don't deny the rights of others, every effort should be made to defend their right to do it.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy.

His voice carried authority the way Ben & Jerry's carries calories.

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.