Quotes About Choreography

Some choreographers have been cautious about working with me.

I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

When I was building my career as a choreographer, acting just happened.

For me, the choreography always comes from the music.

I'd never been around a capella or really knew much about it. I feel like I know a lot about music, but what I didn't anticipate is that when every actor has to sing a different part and then do all their choreography on the same beat or on the same word, it's really hard.

I was president of the choreography society.

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

I've done some movies before when you have months, or three weeks at least, to train and to learn choreography.

Shooting a fight is like shooting any other scene. You have to tell a story using a very specific choreography.

My choreography is very classically based.

I'd never really shot action scenes before, but I realized early on that is very much like shooting choreography and dance.

I studied dance and choreography in New York and even taught people there.

Taking up the choreography for an awards night is completely different from choreographing a song for a film.

I was chosen over British and French choreographers to work on 'Bombay Dreams.'

On Harlan's World, streetlife has a stripped-back elegance to it, an economy of motion and gesture that feels almost like choreography if you're not used to it. I grew up with it, so the effect doesn't register until it's not there any more.

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

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

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

It was the best show I'd ever seen; it was so tight and choreographed that it seemed to be from another planet, a planet where everyone was incredible.

A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it.

My first dance ever on 'Dancing With the Stars' was to 'Let's Hear it for the Boy.'

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

I've got so many dance heroes, and it's such a cliche, but how can I not say Michael Jackson? Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul - they are the people I remember when I was a little girl, watching their videos and trying to learn all the choreography.