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

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.

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

If you want to make god laugh, make a plan.

I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.

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

At one time or another, everyone's had the rom-com itch that needs to be scratched.