168 Quotes by Robert Gottlieb

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

I don't have lunches, dinners, go to plays or movies. I don't meditate, escalate, deviate or have affairs. So I have plenty of time.

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.

When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.

I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.

I can't remember how many years it's been since I last saw a David Parsons program or what I saw whenever it was, but that isn't surprising, since I can't really remember the first half of a David Parsons program while I'm watching the second half.