The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

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.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

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.

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

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

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