I Cannot Stand Authority.

Nobody Is Born A Dancer.

I Have Some Russian Friends. But Probably Only 10 Percent. I Don't Hang Out Usually In The Big Russian Communities In Brooklyn And New Jersey.

Running A Company Is Pretty Demanding.

When A Dancer Comes Onstage, He Is Not Just A Blank Slate That The Choreographer Has Written On. Behind Him He Has All The Decisions He Has Made In Life. Each Time, He Has Chosen, And In What He Is Onstage, You See The Result Of Those Choices. You Are Looking At The Person He Is, And The Person Who, At This Point, He Cannot Help But Be Exceptional Dancers, In My Experience, Are Also Exceptional People, People With An Attitude Toward Life, A Kind Of Quest, And An Internal Quality. They Know Who They Are, And They Show This To You, Willingly.

My Father Was A Party Member And He Was A Pretty High Rank Military Officer Under The Colonel, Junior Colonel, I Don't Know The Term. He Was A Total Stalinist. A Bit With A Streak Of Anti-semitism And Very Shrewd Man, A Very Kind Of Nervous Man.