I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.

There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.

I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.

I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.

Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.

Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.

One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.

Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with the aftermath.

I'm not trying to make the world a better place.

Some actors can draw from their own darkness.

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

I never really learned photography.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart

One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water.

We respect everybody's individual opinion, and we have so much respect for veterans. We're probably one of the biggest movie employer of veterans.

I look back, and I've got a couple of films, and I'm happy.

Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so.

I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.

I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them.