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.

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.

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'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.

Waiting taught me, I can't have it in my way. But in God's way.

Her body was designed for pleasure, not speed, and Coop intended to take his time with it.

I’m really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why, or what.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

Even the best weeks start with monday