I've always had an underdog perspective.

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.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

I'm a big fan of the older vampire movies.

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

As long as there are teenage girls, there will be boy bands. It's a question of how long it takes them to get their music together to come out.