Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards.

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!

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.

Only the unprotected self can feel joy.

Every honest good deed comes with a positive feeling to do more good deeds.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

My family is well, and that's what's important.

It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.