What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

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

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

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.

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.