“We keep our feelings or emotions to ourselves and keep pushing it down, until one day, it explodes and that's what causes problems. I had feelings I hadn't released for the past 30 years so I did it through film.”
“I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn’t catch on right away.”
“I don't think about the audience, I don't think about what makes them happy, because there's no way for me to know. They think of the audience as a mass, but in fact every person in the audience is different. So entertainment for everyone doesn't exist.”