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" Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want. "

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" It's not like I set out to be 'the indie guy.' "

" 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. "

" You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there's really nowhere to hide. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on. "

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

" I know that I'm with the person I'm supposed to be with. "

" It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in. "

" There's good things about going to church. "

" When you drive, you can kind of put your identity aside in the passenger's seat because you're not being watched, and you can just be the watcher. "

" Watching myself. Watching the people around me. There was some part of me that was there as a kid and growing up and living my life, but there was also some part of me that was watching it all happen from the nosebleeds. "

" The '70s just seemed dirty, honestly, and not in an interesting way. It's not the '80s. In fact, it's 10 less. I grew up in the '80s, so that's more of an interesting time to me. "

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

" Now that I'm an actor and I have movies, press, I have more occasions to wear suits. I like wearing suits. "

" 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. "

" I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free. "

" I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does. "

" Maybe in my life I sort of put myself in situations that were chaotic, outside of my life. "

" If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of. "

" I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me. "

" When you meet your kids, you realize that they deserve great parents. And then you have your marching orders, and you have to try and become the person that they deserve. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" It's interesting the kind of freedom the musical form gives you. The rules are out the window. You can get impressionistic without seeming pretentious. Because it's perceived as an inherently accessible form, it gives filmmakers some leeway. "

" What's nice with comedy is that you know it's working if it's funny. "

" 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. "