Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

What I do for a living and how I unwind are one and the same; it's a rare special thing.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.

In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

Muslims may fall short of Islam but Islam will never fall short of Muslims.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.

Communication works for those who work at it.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.