The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

We often hate others because we fail to understand them.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Amigo! Amigo!" (Calling out to the ITALLIAN Prime minister....)

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.