Emory Cohen

Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it's like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that's a lovely environment. ”

If I wanted to play it safe, I'd get a normal job with a secure paycheck. ”

That's what separates actors - I'll take any risk for a performance. ”

I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me. ”

When I was a kid, I saw 'Peter Pan,' and I loved Captain Hook and the Lost Boys because they were the 'bad boys.' ”

I'm shying away from getting lost in really bad movies for really good money. ”

I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy. ”

After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really. ”

I'm glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there's something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge. ”

I love a good loser. ”