People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

If they let me choose between you and the dog, I'll choose the dog.

I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.

I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ]in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim [Burton].

I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.

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

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.