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

I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.

I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

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

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.