If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

I've always liked clothes. I usually work very closely with the costume designer when I work on films, picking the fabrics and the clothes. And colors convey feelings. I like swatches and things like that. It makes me feel at home.

The nice thing about Toronto is there's not a competition.

In a lot of movies, honestly, the directors don't talk to you that much. Maybe they say, "Faster, slower," whatever. Sometimes they give you little adjustments, because sometimes you want to start out neutral, but a lot of times you wind up directing yourself anyway, just doing what you think is the right thing to do.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event