The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

It's something I want to do going forward - make a movie that is commercial and universal and will play in any movie theater or living room in the States or the UK, but is definitively Canadian. I don't think there's such a thing as prohibitively Canadian.