I know for me, specifically, L.A. is just an overwhelming and scary place. I like spending part of my year there, but I love having Canada as my home to come back to.

You have a lot more freedom to explore and improvise in a Canadian film, which you might not have when there's 13 different production companies that all have serious equity investments.

I grew up always wanting to act, always knowing that's what I wanted to do.

The fundamentals of what I'll do to prepare for a role don't really change. They evolve as you work with more actors and you pick up more tricks.

For me, selfishly, Toronto is my favorite city in the world. It's the greatest city and you have the whole world here.

Generally Canadian films are smaller. I think the market here is a tenth of the size of the States. So there's less resources to put into the films.

A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.

By far, the content of Canadian films. You're able to push the envelope in ways you can't in the U.S., I find. But also, because of the budgets and everything, it's all condensed, quick, and short.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Friends help friends fight pixies.

People can't figure me out; they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain.

A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.

If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth.

One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do a lot of research and a lot of thinking and taking a lot of notes before I turn it in.