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

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

You are the architect of your own loneliness.

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.

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.

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.

A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.

The only difference between people who live in this way... is that the people who love in the magic of life have habituated ways of being

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.