For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.
I wanted to direct more than I wanted to act. And I found I couldn't do everything.
There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.
When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.