When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.

When one's greatest 'world stage' ambition is a non-voting seat on the U.N. Security Council five years down the road, one would not want to say anything to hurt the feelings of the veto holders in Moscow or Beijing. We get it. But let's at least be honest about all this, please. Enough of the 'Canada is back' slogans already.

The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line.

If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.

As a director, I've wanted to have adventure in my life, creative adventure. I think it's partly because I grew up, basically from age six to 26, mostly on television series where the producers find something that works and then do it over and over and over again.