I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

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.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.