I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

It's astonishing how many people who direct action don't know how to tell a story.

Precious to me - it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

If we were redesigning around people instead of around automobiles, which I think the market is more or less going to do, although too slowly, than I'd be a lot cheerier.

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.

Donald Trump's living in a different time, a time that is not a match for what Americans now believe about who our leaders should be.