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.

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.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

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

I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies.

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

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.

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 got a Twitter because some guy was pretending to be me.

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.

'The Nice Guys' fulfilled my 1970s fantasy.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The people of Disney are so incredibly amazing; they are so nice.

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.

When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.