When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.

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

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

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

Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.