The people have got to trust in themselves.
As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.
I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.
Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.
The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.
When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.
The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.
I can't frankly see much difference in the film industry at all. The only difference might be that they don't take as much time as they used to. For example, they'll do in one day what we used to take a week to do.
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.
Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either have a dollar or knowing that some kid was listening to my song, I'd go with the kid listening to my song.