What really put me over the top was receiving a packet of hundreds of hand-written thank you notes, telling me how the kids were inspired and excited about the [Cube] project.

I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it or you will never know what's beyond it.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.

The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.

To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.

When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person.

There are just times when your body and your soul feed into a character and you somehow meet at the point where that character truly lives in you. It happens in plays, in TV, in films.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.

I want to be in a position where I feel comfortable selling an idea.

It's not about how long you can live, it's about how long you can forget and forgive.

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!

If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

Always try to understand and educate yourselves on the reasons why Allah has given you life, do that part first then enjoy the rest of life and chill out.

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.