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

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

I don't understand the whole concept of doubles. They used to do that in the early sound films in Hollywood, but I thought we had gotten rid of that. Now not only do you have doubles, but as in Flashdance, you have triples, quadruples. From my point of view it is bad for the art.

America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the public wants to see.

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

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

I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice.