I want to make big movies that appeal to a lot of people. That's satisfying to me.

Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available.

This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set.

Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.

I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band.

I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to make movies that appeal to mass culture.

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

I love actors. I love working with actors. I really enjoy the process. I love having those in-depth discussions about the interior of their character, and actors really love to discuss that too.

In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.

I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios.

True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

Hillary Clinton is not done yet.

The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer.

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical island - all waving palms.

To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.