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.

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.

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

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.

A friend is like a poem.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution?

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

I'm not a movie star and I know that.

Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier