What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

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

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.

The more you know, the better you can imagine.

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.