About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.