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

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

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.

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.

It isn't an idea until it’s created irrespective of its result

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.

The birth of my daughter, gave me life.

There is no god higher than truth.

Ask 'What' and 'When.' The 'How' will naturally be revealed.

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.