“Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn’t have running water for a long time and we didn’t have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel.”

My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She’s a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard.

If you enjoy shaming people, I suggest dentistry as a profession.

When I first started doing stand-up, I would be so nervous that I would just binge drink really heavily right before my sets, and as you can imagine, that had its drawbacks. But now I’m a professional, so I pace myself throughout the day.

The history of colonialism is long and bloody. And it continues today, in the shape of Western arrogance vis-à-vis everyone else. “Us against the rest of the world” is the formula that drives the West.

Writing and making films aren’t different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and you have to be physically strong.

She’d barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her. – Beau

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.

People always known me for rappin’. So I guess that maybe just hindered me, like “oh well, I mid-as-well go long term with it.”

As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.

I really haven’t seen The Report in a long time. I don’t have a copy, but I’ll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.

You have to find it in the moment, and that’s one of the challenges of being an actor – especially a film actor – is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There’s no trick to it. You just have to do.