I think dancing is an emotional experience.

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.

The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement is automatically visible.

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pick up on that.

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.

I do not like a haphazard connection between the dances and the music.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Well, my brother says 'Hello.' So, hooray for speech therapy.

If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

It's hard to win in the league, because every team is good, they got players on their team. A lot harder than high school. It's competitive, and that's what I most love about it.

TV is not a baby sitter.

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big.

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.