When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

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

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.