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

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" I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does. "

" I'm from Canada, and I think, like everyone growing up anywhere else in the world, you are very aware of America - it sort of looms large in its legend, and so did Detroit. "

" I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people. "

" 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. "

" There's something messed up with my brain. "

" I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie. "

" People don't step outside themselves and make the film they want to make, because they're afraid of the reaction. But once you get that reaction and have lived through it, there's nothing they can do to get you down. "

" I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more. "

" My mom was really cool. "

" My first exposure to what Hollywood was like, behind the scenes, was when Joel Silver started screaming at Roger Rabbit at the beginning of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.' "

" I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines. "

" In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis. "

" I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life. "

" If Russell Crowe says that he's Noah, he's Noah. You never doubt it. If he says that he's the Gladiator, he's the Gladiator. He's every character that he says he is. I've never doubted anything that he's done. "

" I'd like to see some Broadway shows at some point in time. "

" When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging. "

" Do you remember when Fabio got hit in the face with a pigeon on the roller coaster, and it broke his nose? Sometimes I feel like I'm the pigeon, and the Internet is Fabio's face. Actually, I don't know if I'm the pigeon, or I'm Fabio's face. Depends on the day, I guess. "

" I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me. "

" You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair. "

" Any time you stick your neck out in high school, there's someone right there to chop your head off. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You feel good if you've done hard work. You sleep better. You get stuck in your head if you have too much time to think. "

" Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it's a creative endeavor. "

" My mother had to tailor what I watched. "

" There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work. "

" I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good. "

" 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. "

" I'm Canadian, and so American politics aren't really in my wheelhouse. "

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" I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job. "