Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can’t buy it. You either have it or you don’t.

I’ve worked on all sorts of things, like the sci-fi stuff for Vin Diesel, where the script is numbered and is in unphotocopy-able colours and your name is stamped into every page. And it doesn’t...

I do dead Canadians. If he’s dead and he’s Canadian and he’s famous, I’ll be playing him at some point.

I’ve played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren’t their movies.

On ’24,’ it says on the front page of your script: ‘This script is for the production staff and cast. Please don’t show it to anybody else.’

I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running. I write everything out. I take the text and I very...

I’m pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I’ll play killers. But my kids always ask me, ‘Do you...