He even helmed that awesome Virgin America preflight music video you’ve probably seen.
“I met with Hasbro 11 years ago about Jem, but it was too big for the time.
Now, a coming-of-age story about a girl figuring out her identity and fame in the YouTube age?
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The LXD (2010-11)
Created a multivolume Web series about dancers with superhuman abilities.
Director (2001-present)
G.I.
Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Revamped the Hasbro series with a new cast.
The airline had no idea what the f we were making and the FAA had no idea.
My motivation was, here’s an opportunity for the law to force someone to watch my work.
Like, you’re locked in and you have to watch it.”
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)
Directed the documentary about the pop star.
Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
Took over the dance franchise as director.
My mom called me a diva.
So I set out to direct the best damn direct-to-DVD dance- movie sequel ever."
Steven Spielberg saw it.
He found me and put me on the map.
I wanted to get him a Cuban cigar as a thank-you, because I knew he loved them.
So I got him some Cubans, put them in a Ziploc bag.
I thought it was so cool.
All these amazing cigars.
I was so embarrassed."
They always said, ‘America’s the greatest place.
Do everything that we couldn’t do.’
So they put us in music classes.
They took us to theater, took us to other art classes, animation classes."
