When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.