Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

the lessons are best when the pain is worse

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

We only have two hours to change people's lives.

From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs, but the way the songs were recorded.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.