“Movement begins to negotiate the distance between the brain and the body and it can be surprising what we learn about each other.”

Art – when it is really doing what it should do – teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.

An artist should… bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, “What is their work in the service of?”

The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it’s also the potential source of amazing energy. This thing wants to live. It is a powerful engine.

The brain (is) a reservoir of images, dreams, fears, associations, language. And its potential we can’t even begin to understand.

All the things about ‘the ugly American’ that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it’s all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.

Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

I support civil unions, I always have. All right, the gay marriage thing, I don’t feel that strongly about it one way or the other.

I finally discovered something – it’s all about Jesus.

I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Billions are lost and billions are made by this speculation, and that’s what the stock exchanges are about. They are for greedy minds.

Marketing is about innovation.