Mark Morris

“Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.”

“It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.”

“I have a beautiful, big bathtub.”

“The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.”

“I'm very tough.”

“I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided.”

“Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.”

“I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.”

“Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.”

“I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.”

“A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.”

“As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.”

“If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.”