I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

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.