I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
I'm obviously always interested in the dancer who's an athlete and vice versa. I expect dancers to be in condition like an athlete is and to challenge themselves in the same way, to the same physical degree.
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.
Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition?
