Steve Antin Quotes

Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available.

This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set.

Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.

I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band.

I want to make big movies that appeal to a lot of people. That's satisfying to me.

I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to make movies that appeal to mass culture.

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

I love actors. I love working with actors. I really enjoy the process. I love having those in-depth discussions about the interior of their character, and actors really love to discuss that too.

In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.

I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios.