I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best..

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema..

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else..

I think one of the things I was most interested in finding out was how differently we approached our work. And my reality was that we didn't approach….

People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another..

I think the father-son dynamic is interesting. I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their dad, and I don't have a mal….

There are certain moments that you have to hit in a film, like when a character cries..

The father-son thing, that's a separate thing. This film [Forsaken] was not about that. This was a film about two actors wanting to try and tell a st….

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I dont have a second to….

I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer..

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous..

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the differenc….

My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would h….

I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsi….

You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have….

I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that rec….

There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom..

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience fo….

Some people think it's because '24' was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months ….

Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler ….

I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then..