Quotes About Choreography

'Chicago' is all about precision.

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

Sayyeesha is a great dancer.

The set of 'You Got Served' was like a dancer's dream.

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

I don't ever use dancers, and when I do, it's literally, like, four break dancers.

I don't like fast cuts. I'd rather shoot something that dances to the music.

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

Both my brother and I have only had dance experience with ballroom dancing.

Some days I would work 18-hour days because I was dancing and choreographing.

For me personally, and I'm sure not everyone is like this. But for me I find it difficult to choreograph in the daytime.

I love movies and there's something close to me about James Dean - I always wanted to do choreography on him.

It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see the kind of fistfight choreography that the star would devote four months to shoot.

A lot of the time, when I'm choreographing, I'm not thinking about what movement look best next to the next movement - I'm actually thinking about what song and what sound sounds right next to the next thing. So kind of choreographing as if I'm always making a mix tape, so to speak.

I used to teach dance lessons.

Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.

I've always thought of the process of creating ballets as being this kind of team effort. It's not like being a painter, where you have your paint, and you have canvas, and you just go at it. I'm working with these living, breathing, functioning human beings, and they have their own thoughts and ideas about what works well movement-wise.

What was Bruce Lee like? How did you meet? What was it like to choreograph the fight scene in Rome with him? Did you spend much time together off-screen? Those are a small sampling of the inquiries I'm asked often, wherever I go around the world.

The interesting thing about film fighting is that it's very different to the kind of fighting we do in pro wrestling.

Anything can happen in pro wrestling.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

Choreography is amazing. I'm still a dancer, yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Creative Director. All of these creative elements are brought out of being a dancer. Directing is something that comes out of understanding movement and choreography. Directing movement is directing a dance piece.

The good part is once I start directing, I can choose the songs I want to do. I'm just selective now when it comes to choreography.

I love the classic side of skating, making it look like a full program and not just technical based.