Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

I am a cloud - in trousers.

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.