It's a tale of redemption. It's a tale of a girl who is going on a journey, who makes mistakes as most young people do... the credit card companies love sending you credit cards so you exceed your limit and they can charge you interest. And this is a girl who overcomes her problems and figures a way out of her financial crisis, and hopefully the world will do the same thing.

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

We hope that audiences around the world embrace the picture in the same way they have the books and that hopefully Disney will allow us make another one.

You've got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again.

I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work.

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.