My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.

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.

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

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.

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

It’s not about working for money, it’s about having money work for you.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt.

A baby is a beautiful, blooming, flower that can smile, sing, and dance.

In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God!

When the individual feels, the community reels.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.

All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic.

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.

Socratic question: all plans? Some? Which ones? How do they do so?