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 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.

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.

Without you discovering your true picture, it will be hard to have a glorious future. It is the discovery of what you have inside and the pursuit of it that can guarantee a glorious future

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

Music awakes the spirit of the mind.

An insufficient level of awareness is indistinguishable from ignorance.

Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.

There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has to be done day after day, and you never quit.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

For me personally, as much as I don't understand my mom and dad and as much as I feel sorry for them sometimes, I can't help but love them very much.

I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face, I pretend that they're not there. But I actually like being on my own, I like being in the space.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.