Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

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

He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

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.