Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.
I started reading all these men's magazines, trying to follow all the tips: what you're supposed to wear, what you're supposed to have, things you're supposed to say, and all the exercises you're supposed to do.
I try not to discriminate against genres.
I’ve been lucky, so lucky, working with [...] Rachel (McAdams) on The Notebook. A big draw for me, when I do a film, is who am I going to be opposite, because there’s only so much I can do on my own.
I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, Id get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didnt know everyone was laughing at me.
I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.
If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.
I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.
I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.
The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.
I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.
I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.
I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.
You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair.
I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.
I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.
I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.
If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.
I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.
I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.
I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.
It was more important to me to understand what its like to be this Jewish kid who felt he was so different at such a young age. I feel the story is about a kid who came to hate through love, so I felt I had to learn why he loved this thing so much that he also apparently hated it.
As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.
