There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

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.

There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

i don't care about the ones who i like anymore but i start caring about ones who really like me

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms All its flowers and leaves and grasses.

As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it.

Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

When you run a company, you need to be pretty open-minded. There are a lot of different views on faith, on religion, on many different issues, and you can't let your own faith be the barometer.

I don't know how music works, I'm just glad that it does.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.