I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

I love working with actors. I love to see what they're going to do. There's just something very thrilling and satisfying with being involved with something, all the way through the process [making movie].

Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.