When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?

Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.

One of my favorite moments is onstage, when you see a dancer leap, and you think they're flying, and then they fall. It's that moment of suspension that you look for, and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't.