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

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.

We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.

Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.