I Arrived In Hollywood Twenty Pounds Overweight

There's Nothing Revolutionary About Saturday Night Fever . You Can See The Same Kind Of Movement At Your Local Disco.

The Only Thing Is That Ordinarily When I Do Dance With [women] They Think I Am Suddenly Going To Throw Them Over A Table Or Twist Them All Around. All I Want To Do Is One-two, One-two-three - A Simple Fox Trot. But They're Shaking With Anticipation At The Thought That I'm About To Whip Them Around And Then Toss Them On The Roof.

It Fit Into My Scheme Of Things For Many Reasons. At The Time It Was True That Male Dancers Were Looked Down Upon, And It Was True That A Lot Of The Male Dancers Were Effeminate. But What I Was Really Trying To Do Was Develop Something That Would Be American.

I Wanted To Do New Things With Dance, Adapt It To The Motion Picture Medium.

I Don't Even Want To Discuss Flashdance. I'm No Critic, But That's An Interesting Phenomenon, That Picture.