I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one.

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.

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 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.

If you care about people and you really love them, you should get angry at the things that put them in danger or hurt them.

Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

We have so many ideas about things we have never tried.

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.

There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!

Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.