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

There is a certain amount of pornography that exists throughout Purple Rain, but the appeal is obvious. You can really pick that picture apart and see where "A" fits into "B" and so on. It was very wisely done.

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.

Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives.

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.

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