I Think Dancing Is A Man's Game

When I Would Create A Dance, I Wouldn't Have The Luxury That Ballet People Do When They Take A Piece Of Music And Impose A Dance Upon It. What We Did In Motion Pictures Was Have A Song And Within That Song Try To Elaborate. My Usual Method Was To Do What A Writer Does: Get A Plot.

Kids Talk To Me And Say They Want To Do Musicals Again Because They've Studied The Tapes Of The Old Films. We Didn't Have That. We Thought Once We Had Made It, Even On Film, It Was Gone Except For The Archives.

There Is A Certain Amount Of Pornography That Exists Throughout Purple Rain, But The Appeal Is Obvious. You Can Really Pick That Picture Apart And See Where "a" Fits Into "b" And So On. It Was Very Wisely Done.

Like An Athlete, [dance] Is An Everyday Job. You Have To Stay In Shape - Unless You Just Want To Loaf Through A Couple Of Hoofing Routines. But That Just Didn't Satisfy Me.

First Of All, Break-dancing Has Been Done For Years, Though Not All Of It Put Together The Way It Is Now. But, Actually, The Distinctions Have Been Blurring Since The 1950s.