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I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.

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.'

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.