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" I'm going to make a movie about 'Hey Girl.' "

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" 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 think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies. "

" I feel like everything has happened naturally. "

" 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. "

" My uncle was an Elvis impersonator - his name was Perry, and he went by 'Elvis Perry' - and my work as a wedding singer landed me a spot in his act. "

" I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they're missing violence. If they just had some violence, they'd be perfect. "

" When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies. "

" I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor. "

" I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you. "

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

" This is going to sound ridiculous, but I remember watching 'Boyz n the Hood,' and there is a scene where Cuba Gooding, Jr. gets pressed against a car by a police officer, and he starts crying because it's so humiliating. I remember thinking in that moment that I could totally identify with him, and I'm a little white kid from Canada. "

" I was highly influenced by violence. "

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

" When I was a kid, I was kind of obsessed with that movie 'Dick Tracy.' Burger King had all this 'Dick Tracy' stuff, and I collected all of it, and I had the posters, and I watched it on a loop. "

" I think 'Believer' and 'Leland' were such great things to have been a part of, and I learned a lot. "

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

" I feel like one of the things that I watched that I felt was really helpful in some way but, more than anything, is worth mentioning was this film 'Boogie Man.' It's a documentary about Lee Atwater. "

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

" Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines. "

" Some of the styles of dance in 'La La Land' I wish I had spent time on when I was a kid. "

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

" That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience. "