Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.

No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.

When I was very young I was very shy but at the same time I was very open cause I was very curious so I wanted to try many things.

A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison — by the employment contract that he has signed.

I experienced one of the common miracles of the Christian life. Our spirits recognized each other.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Aye, tough mermaids are, the lot of them.

That's one thing that you notice in New York that you don't notice in LA is how much music is all over the place.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.