It’s Funny, I Can Sit

Filmmaking Is Finding A Piece Of Granite And You Start To Chip Away And Then You Have The Shape Of A Head, The Shape Of The Arm, You Can See The Shape Of The Face And The Face Starts To Gather Character. You Have To Find It.

Growing Up The Son Of A Director Has Made Me Very Aware Of The Various Turns That A Directing Career Can Take. Sometimes Your Films Turn Out Exactly As You Want. Sometimes They Don't. I Spent A Lot Of My Childhood On Sets. I Think As A Joke, My Father Gave Me A Line Of Dialogue In Each Of His Films During The Worst Moments Of My Puberty.

I Don't Want To Make Films That Give You The Answer. If There Is A Message To My Films - And I Hope There Isn't - It's To Be Open-minded.

The First Set I Remember Was 'ghostbusters.' It Was A Scene In Which The Street Erupted. I Remember Even At Seven Years Old Thinking, 'wow, If You Direct A Movie, You Can Break The Streets Of New York.'

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.