Matthew Bourne Quotes

I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.

"Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept her lips tight together and she curved them up. "You know they've got teeth in there. Big, sharp, shiny teeth." "I didn't. But now I've got to worry about it."

My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know?

There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes weird like it did in 'The Polar Express,' where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it's animated.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers 'Chucky.'

I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.

I saw 'The Shining' in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn't really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me.

I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.

Dolls are like small dead people.

I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

Sometimes he seems like a droid--or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2.

Let's not be afraid of anything that can't really hurt us.

I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.

I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.