A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.

I was never crying and shaking like the Beliebers do, but I understand the idolizing of a hero.

For someone like Daniel Radcliffe, it’s really fun to go against your image. He’s such a goody-two-shoes in Harry Potter. I just wanted him to throw off the gloves and be weird and quirky.

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.

I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.

You're never going to satisfy everybody.

Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.

I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

I love 'Dr Strangelove.

You have little control over the world around you, but full control over the world within you.

Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Perfection is a lie, and lying to others is explicable but lying to oneself is the highest form of deceit.

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.

Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.

There is power in corporate fasting and power in corporate praise.

You don't want to get into doing the same thing, over and over again. I know I don't.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.