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" They say never meet your heroes. But the addendum to that is 'unless they're Harrison Ford.' "

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" I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens. "

" 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'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. "

" Most movies, you have to try and forget you're making a movie, because there are trailers and booms and lights and marks, and it's everywhere. "

" 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'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. "

" 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've always liked women more. I was brought up by my mother and older sister. I found my way into dance class. "

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

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

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

American Politics

" I try not to discriminate against genres. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I feel like everything has happened naturally. "

" 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. "

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

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

" You can't geek out with a lot of people about Linda Manz. "

" I don't really have that much angst to get rid of. "

" My mother had to tailor what I watched. "

" Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip. "

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

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

" Anybody could write a bad script, and I'm one of them, you know? "

" 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 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. "

" Women are better than men. "