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.

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 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.

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.

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 love, has been love, will always be love that makes the biggest difference in our world.

A friend is a stranger that you have come to know better.

Welcome to thee, O sword of eternity!Through BuddhaAnd through Daruma alikeThou hast cleft thy way.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

I realize that you have to be careful sometimes what you wish for.

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart.

A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.