I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.