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

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

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.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.