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

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’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.

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

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.

When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.

I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn’t something that I grew up watching.