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

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.

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.

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

When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.