I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

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