It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.

I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.