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I love film, and I love short films.
Without disruptions in life, where would we be?
I'm not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.
It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.
I can walk down the street and have a human experience every day.
I think when you focus on the work, it becomes a simpler pursuit.
I think my generation is defining themselves as Canadian artists.
I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.
What happens when we questions power structures? What are the consequences?
The lack of available, good work inspires a lot of people to be self-creating.
I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.
I think I'll always base myself out of Toronto. I don't have any plans to move to L.A.
My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.
My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
My grandmother was British and in the Women's Auxiliary Royal Air Force in World War II.
As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.
I think Tilda Swinton is terribly interesting. I think she's fascinating. I love her work.
It was really great to be part of the Philip Roth story as a woman in a very complete way.
You have to find your projects and track them as they go along that long process of being made.
Film is an art form. Dissecting and understanding it is a part of our own interest in humanity.
Should 50 per cent of Telefilm's projects be helmed, produced, or written by women? I think so.
I think everyone's had that moment where you're sitting there in class and notice someone for the first time.
You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.
I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!
I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.
I have a regular life, and I do that intentionally: hanging out with my friends, cooking dinner for my boyfriend.
I don't love L.A. It's a great place to visit; it's a great place to meet and work, but I don't want to live there.
You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.
You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point.
I'm part of a generation that's saying, 'I don't want to do just one thing, and I'm going to do things the way I want.'
When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.
Toronto is such a progressive city. When you've travelled to other places in the world, you realize how unprogressive they are.
This might be really weird, but The Body Shop has a tea tree oil stick that you can put on zits, and it makes your zits go away.
I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.
We have a strong tradition in Toronto of really great film writers, and growing up in that climate is a big reason I pursued cinema studies.
That's the amazing thing about our jobs; it's constantly changing, and it's extremely dynamic, and you, therefore, have to be dynamic as well.
I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.
I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.
Working with Mr. Armani is such an incredible experience because he's so creative and such a visionary, and Linda Cantello is amazing and a true artist.
The kinds of films that I'm used to doing are independent films. They're very small character-driven pieces, and there isn't as much spectacle involved.
I fell in love with filmmaking. I fell in love with criticism. I fell in love with theory, and it made me really dogmatic in my approach to choosing roles.
When you're wearing a corset for a long period of time, things that were important to you hours before are no longer important, because doing them exhausts you.
It was a very critical moment for me when I began working with David Cronenberg and seeing this amazing director and creator choose to base himself out of Toronto.
It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way.
Growing up, you have all these ideas, and then you're confronted and faced with the real world for the first time. And you have to think of what you want your life to be.
Sometimes when you're working on a period piece, there's this tendency to be nostalgic about the period and do everything superglamorous, which can end up looking cliche.
I was getting a lot of pressure to go to the States, but I never really wanted to. I saw Cronenberg forge his own path, and that made me believe that I could do that, too.
Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.
When you're in a very specific kind of wardrobe, it kind of dictates your movement; it also kind of enables you - or, I guess, disables you - from certain kinds of movement.