I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

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

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.

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