I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.

I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.

One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.

There's something I have about being Canadian - there's a distance it gives you when you live in the States and operate in American culture. You approach familiar things a different way; you come at it from a different angle. It's a trait that runs through a lot Canadian artists' work and actors' work and musicians' - that kind of special remove.