Abby Lee Miller Quotes

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.