Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.

It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.

Please don't wear skinny jeans if you don't have skinny genes.

Claiming that someone's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you're on a diet.

You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.

I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control.

Even vegetables have feelings in our world.

Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.

It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came from my earliest experiences as a young refugee.

See shades of grey... Act anyway

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.