I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth.

Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn, ' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.

Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.

I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect.

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away. - Clary Fray

If you don't understand hip-hop, you just have to see it being recorded.

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.