I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.

Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.