We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

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.

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.

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.

If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how often they prove they're only there to use you.

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.