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

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

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.

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.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

The past might hurt but don't run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it.

Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.

We grew up in a place without a hint of love. Perhaps this was the single thing that bound us forever.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human. I think I'm destined to play an alien.

Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.

Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.

Most of us are never seen, not clearly, and when we are we likely jump and run.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.