I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

You are the architect of your own loneliness.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That's the way studios do it now.

I'm addicted to directing!

I will never lose anything that an audience will miss.I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.

I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.

Resentment lies in the heart of fools.

What I cannot tough, remains a memory, I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be

Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror

I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.

Nature's mighty law is change.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.

I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.