“I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.”

The things that I remember are the Rainbow Room, the Roxy, the Bizarries, Tower, I grew up my whole life going there

I was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

You are the architect of your own loneliness.

I’ve always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly

There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.

I’m addicted to directing!

Mary J. Blige is the Queen Latifah character. Her voice in this movie [Rock of ages] is, she just gives it this incredible warmth, and she’s just this person who blows out of the screen. She’s just incredible.

He’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.

I’m living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

Filthy McNasty’s and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.

When I put something into motion

And I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.

I will never lose anything that an audience will miss

Most of the actors have said “this is the best role they’ve ever had.” So you know, that’s important to me.

People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.

You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can’t afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

There’s a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

We artists are a different breed of people. We’re a happy bunch.

There is no news media. There’s simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.

The people that we’re asking for peace, they’re a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers and they don’t even understand what peace means.