Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux - the wonders.

The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.

My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.

Those who write may think they know their target market. They may even feel they can shape the work to fit it. If this is true of you, you have more control over your creative process than I do. Even so, I humbly submit that you try letting your writing shape your target market instead and see what happens.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.'