There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

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

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

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.

There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?