I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

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 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.

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

Life has no joy in it without accomplishment of purpose

Do you understand the sadness of geography?

More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and bigoted.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

I do [believe climate change is man-made].

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.

As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.