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" I did what I had to do to get where I wanted to go. I had unearned confidence. "

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" I was very impressed by Walt Disney and the idea that you could have a dream and you could realize it to the point where people could walk around within it... It still resonates with me. I wanted to be somebody who believed in their ideas that much. "

" I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you. "

" What a lot of people don't understand about the NC-17, which I didn't understand, is that you can't show it in major theater chains - and you can't even air spots for your film on television. It really stigmatizes the movie. "

" When I was a kid, I saw 'Rambo First Blood', and the next day, I took knives to school and threw them at everybody. So I was definitely influenced by violent films before 'Drive.' "

" If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things. "

" It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years. "

" I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that. "

" Freedom is such a gift. "

" If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it. "

" Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men. "

" It's not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to - to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor. "

" I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is. "

" I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies. "

" I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it. "

" I guess there's something about you don't know why you're attracted to a character, but you're attracted to them enough to want to - it's like when a song comes on, and you feel like dancing. You don't know why; you just want to dance. It's hard to analyze that feeling, and if you do, you get far away from it. "

" I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are. "

" I try not to discriminate against genres. "

" I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already. "

" I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal. "

" I don't believe in ghosts. "

" I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world. "

" I feel like I'm always trying to make a movie about the Two Faced Man in some way. "

" I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies. "

" You can tell so much about somebody by the films they make, and it's only while I approach this do I now realize how much of the filmmaker you can see in their films. "

" The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around a lot of it. I prefer just to kind of stay out of it. "

" I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play. "

" I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies. "

" I make a mean tuna fish sandwich. "

" I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were. "