I Took It As It Came And

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

Things Danced On The Screen Do Not Look The Way They Do On The Stage. On The Stage, Dancing Is Three-dimensional, But A Motion Picture Is Two-dimensional.

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.

When They Do Let Them Sustain On Screen From Head To Toe, Though, Then You Know They Must Think The Person Is A Good Dancer.

I Think Dancing Is A Man's Game And If He Does It Well He Does It Better Than A Woman.