There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.