No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

Money is a never-ending problem.

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

I always want more.

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

If it exists, it's possible.

One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.

We actually tried to invest in Twitter in April 2007, right when it launched. At the time, the company was wary of having a classic, tier-one traditional venture firm involved.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.

Focus on the WHY of life and not the HOW, remembering that where focus goes, energy flows.

I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.

I think women athletes who have been successful need to help other sports, those sports that are just emerging. That's what I've been thinking about and looking forward to.

What I have to offer as a writer/director is the stuff with the feeling in it.

But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

We never listen when we are eager to speak.

The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form of the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.'

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.

In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.