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

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.

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

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.

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.

... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.

If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.