There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

There is so much in the world to care about.

It's happened. It's in the past. You can't change it. You are not broken. Learn from the past, then build from it.

Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.

Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.

Jesus please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush.

I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.

Ask yourself to slow down.

Tomorrow at sunrise I shall no longer be here.