You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any project. No one starts a creative endeavor without a certain amount of fear; the key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you've begun. When I feel that sense of dread, I try to make it as specific as possible.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

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

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.