44 Quotes by Graeme Murphy

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.

I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.

I think the Olympics could help us reach more people.

We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.

So putting the Black Swan in Act 1 where Tchaikovsky put it and not cutting repeats just to make your life easier - because it was there for a reason.

And then towards the end, in the '60s... and '50s and '60s, there was great controversy 'cause they brought a few French troupes out.

But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.