I wanted to do it in the best possible way with great integrity - get rid of the bits where the audience sits through and yawns and keep it moving but not Reader's Digest.

You can't develop dancers with three performances over one weekend. And you also cannot develop audiences and you also cannot develop sponsorships. Why would someone want to pay to be a sponsor of a production that is over in one weekend?

I knew three or four years ago that we had to open in a grand, special way. I wanted to make sure we had this particular production, so we looked outrageously grand and glorious.

If it includes threats to the life or physical integrity of individuals taking no active part in hostilities, or the taking of hostages, such action would be a grave violation of international human rights standards.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam.