You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.

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 never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

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.

I am teaching more. That is what I do best.

Nobody is born a dancer.

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.