You are the architect of your own loneliness.

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

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.

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

Jake, anyway, and somehow that seemed far, far worse. The couldn’t

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

I dont have a dishwasher, and I hate washing dishes.

Work makes a callus against grief.

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.