What I do for a living and how I unwind are one and the same; it's a rare special thing.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

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.

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.

If you know what you want and you hire people that can do it, there's no reason it should be arduous and torturous. I wanted everyone to enjoy themselves on my set and want to be there, to take ownership of it and pitch ideas to me and know that this is their flick.

I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

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