Quotes

I like to sleep a lot. I mean I really like to sleep.

Anytime I'm at a club or a party, I'm dancing from beginning to end.

You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into.

For the most part, I think that people enjoy seeing a movie where they can just have fun in.

I'm a fun person, but to be the life of the party all the time, just to walk into a room and be 'on' and have everybody looking at you, that is so incredibly scary for me.

Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.

For the most part, I think that people enjoy seeing a movie where they can just have fun.

I'm a huge gamer! I love playing 'World of Warcraft.' It helps me wind down and escape reality for a few.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.

Six of my 12 grandchildren are black.

However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light, the ways to make it through. They help us find the joys and delights, the hopes we need for our days and hours. I am grateful for their gifts.

Women artists, no matter how well recognized they are, are seldom given solo exhibitions or featured in significant group shows. They are never top-ranked in auction choices.

You don't have a balanced life if you don't have art.