Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes people just need thunderbolts. Thunderbolts to climb like stairs. Sometimes people just need a talisman. A promise in the lectern of their hands.

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult times.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.