Justin Peck Quotes

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

I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.

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

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

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

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.

I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only when I was 19, and discovered ballet and contemporary dance, that I got interested in the fact that you could have a whole evening of dance - rather than just waiting for the dancers in a musical.

As a child, I would say that I wanted to become a dancer to honour music. For me, dancing is the physical translation of the audio recording.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

Some people are brilliant on the first take, some people are brilliant on the fourth take, and when you are doing a group scene, you kind of have to figure that out.

The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.

When I dance, I look almost identical to Beyonce. And I mean identical. In many ways, when she becomes Sasha Fierce, she's actually just becoming me.

The EA Sports UFC development team has been incredible to work with, and they've done a great job capturing the look and feel of my father.

I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same.

I would do Bollywood, but I don't know if I could do that - the dance, the singing, the kind of flirting with your eyes, the outfits.

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.

Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world.

I'd never really shot action scenes before, but I realized early on that is very much like shooting choreography and dance.

The ballet world, it's a crazy world.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

I love dance - trying to express myself wordlessly.

Choreography is something that I am always going to take up, and it will be on the forefront.

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

To me, the future of TV and movies is going to be 3-D animation.