'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.

Directing 'The Office' is kind of like someone going, 'Would you like to drive my Lamborghini?' And I'm like 'Yes, I would like to drive your Lamborghini. That sounds like fun.'

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

I'm a believer that people need to understand that filmmaking is not a perfect process for anybody. It is a process in which you find the film and the film finds you. And that is every film.

With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

God created human beings in his own likeness.

Thou wilt be condemned in to everlasting redemption for this.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Long live the new flesh.

Don't give up, what've you do; eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!

God's presence is all that matters.

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.

We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future.

It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.