I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.
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.
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've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L. A.
Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available.
I want to make big movies that appeal to a lot of people. That's satisfying to me.
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.
As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one. . . is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.
Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.
Clarity precedes success.