I'm going to make a movie about 'Hey Girl.'
— Ryan Gosling
If Russell Crowe says that he's Noah, he's Noah. You never doubt it. If he says that he's the Gladiator, he's the Gladiator. He's every character that he says he is. I've never doubted anything that he's done.
I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.
I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines.
I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl.
I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up because - well, at least where I grew up - it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system.
We should get a Roomba for our Roomba. I feel bad for it because it works tirelessly, and at night I can hear it cleaning, and I just feel bad for it.
When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies.
It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.
I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it.
I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie.
I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already.
I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it.
People don't step outside themselves and make the film they want to make, because they're afraid of the reaction. But once you get that reaction and have lived through it, there's nothing they can do to get you down.
What's nice with comedy is that you know it's working if it's funny.
Women are better than men.
When you meet your kids, you realize that they deserve great parents. And then you have your marching orders, and you have to try and become the person that they deserve.
I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.
The '70s just seemed dirty, honestly, and not in an interesting way. It's not the '80s. In fact, it's 10 less. I grew up in the '80s, so that's more of an interesting time to me.
It's interesting the kind of freedom the musical form gives you. The rules are out the window. You can get impressionistic without seeming pretentious. Because it's perceived as an inherently accessible form, it gives filmmakers some leeway.
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. That's my own reality, so it's a doorway into a world for me.
If I'm still acting at 46, I'll be surprised.
My sister and I used to sing at weddings. We would sing 'When a Man Loves a Woman' to the bride. We'd do it right before the garter ceremony.
I still go to Disneyland as much as I can. The Haunted Mansion is my favorite ride.
I wish I could be Peter Falk.
The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around a lot of it. I prefer just to kind of stay out of it.
I don't know enough about manliness to define it.
I don't believe in ghosts.
A car is only trouble at a certain point.
I'm from Canada, and I think, like everyone growing up anywhere else in the world, you are very aware of America - it sort of looms large in its legend, and so did Detroit.
I've always liked women more. I was brought up by my mother and older sister. I found my way into dance class.
My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better.
I know that I'm with the person I'm supposed to be with.
I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.
The people of Disney are so incredibly amazing; they are so nice.
My first exposure to what Hollywood was like, behind the scenes, was when Joel Silver started screaming at Roger Rabbit at the beginning of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.'
I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free.
My mother had to tailor what I watched.
I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal.
My uncle was an Elvis impersonator - his name was Perry, and he went by 'Elvis Perry' - and my work as a wedding singer landed me a spot in his act.
Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.
Maybe in my life I sort of put myself in situations that were chaotic, outside of my life.
Watching myself. Watching the people around me. There was some part of me that was there as a kid and growing up and living my life, but there was also some part of me that was watching it all happen from the nosebleeds.
I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they're missing violence. If they just had some violence, they'd be perfect.
I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.
I didn't want to make a literal film about Detroit, because it felt like what they were experiencing was more universal than that.
It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way.
I did what I had to do to get where I wanted to go. I had unearned confidence.
When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.
Some of the styles of dance in 'La La Land' I wish I had spent time on when I was a kid.
