The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.
I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.
The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!
The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.
A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.
That being said, I am not one to feel sorry for myself. I believe it is healthy to honor one's feelings and do the best we can to learn and grow from them moving forward.
Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.
I believe in the power of the human spirit.
When you see stuff that's wrong. . . it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.
In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because I don't want to hide from that. I want to acknowledge that there is a living human and a living eye and a living mind and a living heart responding to what's going on out there.
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.