I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

Independent films are very hard to get made, but I'm lucky enough to get them made, so I'm going to keep doing it. I like my independence. I like being able to tell a story the way I want to tell a story. I don't like developing it with a team. I like coming to a story and deciding whether I want to do it or not.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.