When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.

It's only as bad as you make it.

I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.

The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society

The DS represents a critical moment for Nintendo's success over the next two years. If it succeeds, we rise to the heavens, if it fails, we sink into hell.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

The time has come for someone to put his foot down, and that foot is me.

L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.