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.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

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

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

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

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.

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.