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.

There's a chunk of myself in every part I play...

People always like to have a good time and laugh, and, [among] the vast majority of the seven billion people on this earth, one thing that we all have in common is at some point we all need to pair up and find some sort of significant other, some sort of romantic counterpart.

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

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

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.