A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

What people will do to get away from boredom!

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

I read Russian literature a lot.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.