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

I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.

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

I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

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

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