I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.