Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.