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

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.

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!

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

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.

Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

Unless you love yourself, it's difficult to respect anyone else who holds that high an opinion of you.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

I'm with the boss I'm Ms Ross

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.

In terms of favourite movies then, I like Lion King. Something more recent would be Alice in Wonderland; it'd be kind of cool to have The White Queen appear in Kingdom Hearts.