Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

How the English love playing at being naughty boys!

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.

When Barbarossa commences, the world will hold its breath and make no comment.

I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for a living.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.

The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.

Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging every night.

Each child born on earth Is a unique promise of God To God Himself.

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.