“I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.”

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That’s the way studios do it now.

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy’s going to hang out on the top of the Burj

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth.

I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.

I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.

I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.

I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.

It’s been exhausting. It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever done because it’s just so big, and I haven’t had a lot of time.

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.

Rock of the ages been a really interesting job.

Mia Michaels is to my mind one of the most interesting choreographers alive right now and my colleague and my friend from So You Think (You Can Dance).

the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.

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

For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance.

I don’t use a crap camera, I don’t eat junk, and I’m not going to a dance where the boys are bores.