I always worry that me by myself, I'm doing the same thing I'm always doing and become too lazy and conservative in what I do, or too incestuous in my own thoughts.

I need to observe the people, and I think I need to observe myself.

I think that collaboration makes me a better director and observer and writer because I can look at things in a different way.

Dance is so fascinating and I like collaborating with people a lot.

I went to New York for a research trip, just because it has these iconic street canyons. It's one of the few cities that has sidewalks that are wide enough for a sea of umbrellas to be there.

Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else.

Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

The key is in the craft.

I have no fear, I have only love

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

There shall be no more sin, neither shall there beany more death.

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

I've always been a very self-aware person.