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.

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'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.

You need to know your destiny

There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully.

Even a good family can become a trap for one’s destiny when the family becomes your aim

There is always pleasure in increase

If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another

Everybody loses the thing that made them.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.