I miss the romance. I keep saying this over and over again, but dance follows music. And if the accent today is percussion and rhythm and loudness, then that is the way the dance numbers will be. But it is pretty hard on romance with seven guitars, three drums, and no melody instruments in the band.

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music and impose a dance upon it. What we did in motion pictures was have a song and within that song try to elaborate. My usual method was to do what a writer does: get a plot.

Come on with the rain / I’ve a smile on my face.

I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

There's nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever . You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco.

When they do let them sustain on screen from head to toe, though, then you know they must think the person is a good dancer.