I'm very happy to be directing though. It's a challenge, and it's a lot of fun for me to be on set.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

Never categorize yourself: Society does that to you, ..don't do it to yourself.

I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.

Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium.

I never exceed the posted speed limit.

One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.

I love filming in Britain.

Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.

It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

You must remember how to dream what you already know.

Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.

Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.