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.

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

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

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 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 is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days.

I've learned it does not do well to dwell on the past. You cannot change it. you can revisit it, you can remember it, but it simply will not change!

We are all only men, defined by our choices.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

Kids have awkward moments.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.

I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion- keep you from eating, which I liked to do.