As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.

I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.

My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

Learn to give thanks in all things – good or bad.

I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.

Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds...

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.

I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record with him.

If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountain top is not breathtaking.

As long as I'm not hurting anybody, I don't think that anything I do is wrong.

On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

The deepest love is often hidden.