Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

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.

The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.

If your vision inspires others to see their dreams and your actions motivate them to realize it, then you are a leader.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

I wasn't a keen taker of speed because I didn't like the comedown from it.

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Nothing in his touch said he considered her fractured, considered her damaged goods, and that gave her a freedom she wouldn't have believed possible.

friendship is love made bearable.

My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.