Matthew Bourne Quotes

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious – just because they don’t speak.

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the ’40s and ’50s.

I’ve always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can’t bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.

I wish I was more adventurous.

I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie’s house.

Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.