The film industry is a cyclical business. Even musicals are coming back.

All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a sense of wonder.

I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.