Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet.

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.

I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.