Successful people reject rejection.
The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.
I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.
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.
When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.
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.
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.
The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work. ” And it does!
I want to keep winning, the hell with the record.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.