Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.

Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.