On a certain level, the film retains a cultural memory. It may be meaningless to some kids, but it doesn't matter. A lot of the '90s references will …

- Joseph M. Kahn

I will say that I'm going to take full credit for this. I knew Josh [Hutcherson] was going to be a star. One of the things you do, as a music video d…

- Joseph M. Kahn

Even the way the kids react with media today is so completely different than what most movies have. We just wanted to make a movie that challenged th…

- Joseph M. Kahn

If you really like a movie these days, you don't watch it once, especially if you're a kid, because you have a different relationship with media. You…

- Joseph M. Kahn

I still have every record company sending every new, hot track to me, to do music videos, so I'm chained by the foot to pop culture. I still know wha…

- Joseph M. Kahn

If you look at Cinderhella, from a production design aspect, I tried to find an interesting, iconic character, having her face wrapped up in bandages…

- Joseph M. Kahn

John Hughes made a certain type of high school movie, and then it stayed static for 30 years. The only thing that changed was that maybe it was found…

- Joseph M. Kahn

The filmmaker should make it, and then the critic should interpret it, period. If the director goes in there and starts telling you exactly what to t…

- Joseph M. Kahn

I have a day job that's very odd. Most people, by the time they're 25, glom onto one kind of music and that's what they listen to for the rest of the…

- Joseph M. Kahn