I got a Walkman, I had the 'Footloose' soundtrack and I danced to it constantly.

Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.

I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.

I'm surprised by how many people have not seen 'Footloose.'

I think that there's a particular type of person who goes into children's theater, and then goes into theater in high school. There was something about the guys I knew in theater, we were all very vulnerable. You could tell that at some point we were made fun of.

There's something really special for a young person to sit in an audience and discover somebody, and it's rare to do because so much of a movie's economics are based on pre-existing actors or actresses.

I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.