Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not.

Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.

I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.

At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone's going to love you.

I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.

People make films about all kinds of relationships, but they won't do these extremely intense platonic love affairs that happen between young girls. In a way they are more intense than anything else you ever have, and that's what I wanted to make a film about, though it was in the context of a horror film.

I realized you can always make money; you just do a lot of things.