Go ahead and do what you're doing.
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.
I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.
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.
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.
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.
From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I knowA woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.
On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game.
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.