I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.

It was actually the opposite of what a director once said to me. He said, 'Remember, everyone is here to serve you.' And as he walked away, I thought to myself, 'It's exactly the opposite: I'm here to serve everyone.

As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.