When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

LongA-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

I was always handsome under all the fat.

Charm is what some have until they begin to believe it.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.

Hope is what makes us strong. It is why we are here. It is what we fight with when all else is lost.

As we embark on something as ambitious as the Common Core, educators must be able to teach to the standards with the necessary support and collaboration and without the sense that there will be dire consequences if students, schools and their tests don't make the grade.

I’m not very good at saying sorry, but I apologize.

I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.

I am free.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

You cant copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy it means youre working without any real feeling.

The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.

I want to do comedy films, serious films - I admire the actors who fly under the radar but get loads done, pop up in a lot of good films.

What can I say? I'm a book junkie.

I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

Enough is as good as a feast