SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere.

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.

Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here.

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.

Don't fight the system, mock the system

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

I will always smell good.

Going forward seems like retreat.

Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.