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.

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.

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

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.

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 am not the first straight dancer or the last.

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.