The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

Toronto has such a nice balance as far as the films they show there,