Jason Moore

'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music.

I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.

Ultimately, as a director, you try and tell people where to look, but unlike film or television, where you force them to look at something, you can't control it completely.

I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.