People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.

If it's called a selfie, why are there people in it?

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.