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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" My sister and I used to sing at weddings. We would sing 'When a Man Loves a Woman' to the bride. We'd do it right before the garter ceremony. "

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

" I didn't want to make a literal film about Detroit, because it felt like what they were experiencing was more universal than that. "

" A car is only trouble at a certain point. "

" It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way. "

" 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. "

" For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it. "

" It's Shane Black. He's a world unto himself. His world is so fun and crazy. "

" 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. "

" I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl. "

" 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'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 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. That's my own reality, so it's a doorway into a world for me. "

" My mom was really cool. "

" 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 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. "