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 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.

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.

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

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

Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.

pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.

You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

The baboon is driving,” I noted. “Should I be worried?