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

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

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.

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.

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.

On the road to nowhere there are many people who lack the vision to get you anywhere.

Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity.

True love withstands the storms of life.

As ye would that men should do to you do ye also to them likewise.

The best way to be global is to be local.

We have been created for God and by God to transform the world around us.

[T]he people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East.

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

I’m the frosting on America’s cake, and tonight I’m willing to let you lick the bowl.