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

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.

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.

When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can’t go much further because ultimately it’s feeding off of somebody else’s creativity.

Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.

America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well.

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.