I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger.

I would say it's like a meditative process, to have everything done for you every morning.

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

The young people, they don't knock on the door politely and say "May I come in?" They barge in, they take your seat, and you're obsolete unless you recreate and somehow find grace somewhere else. Another profession may not be like that.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.