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

I am a cloud - in trousers.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

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

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.

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

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