Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

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

I cannot stand authority.

I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

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.