My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

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.

All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.

Everybody want to experience some form of pleasure in whatever they are doing and one of the sure ways of doing that is by seeing increase in your endeavors or results

It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.

[Sundance] still feels like an incredible place for championing emerging voices and art.

There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.

I take being a role model seriously.

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.