Humanizing Good People Is Kind

Humanizing Good People Is Kind Of Boring And I Don't Really See The Value In It... Humanizing Tricky Characters Is Exhilarating, And Making Audience Films Out Of Indie Subjects Excites Me.

Well, Toronto, I Consider To Be The Birthplace Of My Films. I've Made Three Films And This Is The Third One To Premiere Here In The Same Theater On The Same Day At The Same Time - They Are My Audience. They're The People That I Think About While I'm Writing, Directing, And Editing. I Specifically Make Movies For Them.

I Think Romance Is A Tool, Comedy Is A Tool And Drama Is A Tool. I Really Just Want To Tell Stories That Challenge The Viewer, Move People, Make You Laugh, Perhaps Push An Idea About Being Open-minded But Never Settle On A Genre Or An Opinion. I Hate Genre. I Like Movies That Are Original In Their Approach.

And As A Director, You Make 1,000 Decisions A Day, Mostly Binary Decisions: Yes Or No, This One Or That One, The Red One Or The Blue One, Faster Or Slower. And It's The Culmination Of Those Decisions That Define The Tone Of The Film And Whether Or Not It Moves People.

The First Thing I Say When People Ask What's The Difference [between Doing Tv And Film], Is That Film Has An Ending And Tv Doesn't. When I Write A Film, All I Think About Is Where The Thing Ends And How To Get The Audience There. And In Television, It Can't End. You Need The Audience To Return The Next Week. It Kind Of Shifts The Drive Of The Story. But I Find That More As A Writer Than As A Director.