The devil is more interesting than God.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow

I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

I just do what I want to do, and if it's a rather interesting script - which I found.

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.