Discipline is liberation.
I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.
Pity is a corroding thing.
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity.
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.