if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

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.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.

Do you think there could be a universe next door?

We yearn for a stranger to poke around in our heart. Such an irrational thing it is. Flutter once and lunacy behold.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work

Sharing revelations is easier when it doesn't matter.

Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution - the only necessary Law of the Constitution.