Farah Khan Quotes

I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.

While dancing for me was fun, becoming a choreographer was not something I wanted to do.

I will never leave choreography and will keep doing songs, too.

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.

I've created, directed and choreographed for Lady Gaga since the beginning, so 'Born This Way,' this was musically such an amazing evolution and such a brilliant record. So when she played it for me, it took me a while to find out the visual interpretation that I could give back to her.

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.

'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.

I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.

I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.

I'm a choreographer and a director, and I have no ambition beyond that.

With my work, it's not possible to just cast a production and leave it. I have to nurture the group of dancers to make it happen.

I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting.

'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.

I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.

A. L. Vijay asked if I could dance, and I just said yes. I didn't tell him the only dancing I had done was on nights out in Liverpool. He said he would arrange workshops and help me with the scripts and the language. He liked the fact that I was English but had an Indian look.

I announced at the dinner table when I was 11 that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. But my goal changed to musical theater after the choreographer Robert Joffrey saw me perform while I was on scholarship at the San Francisco Ballet School.

I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing.