Quotes

I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.

Ever since having kids, napping is something that I'm prone to do and very easily could do but rarely get the chance to.

There was a lot of improvisation on 'Step Brothers.' I remember it being really frightening, and it took me a long time to get used to it and grow to be able to hold my own. But I remember when it was done feeling like, 'I don't know if I ever want to go back to working another way.'

When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.

I'm a big consumer of media and content online.

'Black Mass' was a really great experience.

I think podcasting is here to stay.

For a lot of people, divorce is an incredibly healthy move to make in your life.

I think a lot of us are a lot more cautious with marriage because of what we saw happening with our parents. I see a lot more healthy marriages in my generation than they probably saw in theirs.

I came to Los Angeles to be an actor, which is, at best, a gamble.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.

A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a lawyer. So believe me, I analyze and negotiate. That is a huge amount of the director's work, especially when you're working with people who - such a variety.

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

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I'm from theater, and that's really what theater feels like.

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

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

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.

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

Technology is changing the world; it's changing our sport. It's changing the way people are following the NBA.

Basketball is so unique. It's both a team and an individual sport.

I'm a huge fan of the game. It's beyond a fringe benefit of obviously getting to work at the league office. I watch a ton of games in person, on television, on all forms of new media I follow the league. And so it's just beyond my wildest imaginations to me to now be the commissioner of the NBA.