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

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

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

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

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.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

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

By keeping the truly important things front and center, we often get the perspective we need to make better decisions.

The emptiness, the way his heels rang on the asphalt, was satisfying, emphasised his aloneness. A man alone, alone late at night with no one to say he should be home in bed.

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

America doesn't have health insurance.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

I grew up in such a small city, I had to be popular or I'd be dead. So I had to be popular!

My doctor is a family physician. He treats my family and I support his.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.

I don't really think you can ever stop making new friends or learning about as many new things as possible.