I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to be: to hold attention and, while you're not looking, you'll get hopefully some nutritional value that the author has been working up. That's narrative; that's passing stuff down.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. But that has to do with content and also because the venues seem to be actively trying to repel people.

When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.