I missed out on a traditional childhood but I had something else that got me to what I am doing today. I can`t say I regret it but I certainly wouldn`t let my child act at an early age.
The guy who taught me to use the shotgun was a complete gun nut. I asked, `Is the safety on when it`s to the right or off when it`s to the right?` And he said, `The way I like to remember it is right is safe, like the government, and left is unsafe, like ...
[On filming The Sweet Hereafter (1997)] "I was so young then, 18. I`m really comfortable in sadness so I don`t get depressed doing stuff like that. I actually find it invigorating. It was an amazing experience. Atom Egoyan is a filmmaker who I really resp...
I was pretty uninterested in acting until I was about 17. I wanted to go to university and never think about acting again. I`d been very politically involved for a couple of years and I wanted a break, so I did The Sweet Hereafter (1997) in 1997. But I en...
That`s something I find is really missing in films that portray love between people in their 60s or 70s. It generally lacks chemistry, like somehow that`s all died away, and that`s just not my experience of people in their 60s and 70s, that that whole par...