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.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

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

No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

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 just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

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