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.

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.

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.

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

On a group of theories one can found a school

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

We focused attention on what some believe are the flaws in the process leading to Senate consideration of the bill and the flaws of the bill itself.

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.

Isn't it interesting how Christians are not afraid to teach their children about evolution?

How do I get to Carnegie Hall?

A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.