I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

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

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

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

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

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

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.