Robert Gottlieb 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.

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.

I've choreographed all of my movies.

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.

I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.

I'm very interested in dance, and I'm very interested in how people express themselves through movement. And of course, cinema is a kinetic art form. It's almost the point of cinema - it's time-based and movement-based.

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

I really developed an early love for ballet. Like most dancers, I am still 'first' a dancer. I'm very proud of it. Once you are a dancer, the physicality never leaves you, nor does the strength. Hopefully, it keeps you like an athlete.

I have very strong feelings about dance and how it's shot.

I was a dancer and performer.

Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

My movement is usually about finding the balance between artistry, athleticism, and musicality. It always originates with a classical basis and expands outwards from that platform.

I think I'm a dancer in terms of what I do onstage.

I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

I've never looked at what I do as show business, I guess, because of my connection to the art and how I was introduced to the dance.

What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a cohesive experience.

I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.

I saw Rain dance on TV and decided that I wanted to sing and dance like him.

I once played a character called Mr. Jonathan in something called 'Razzle Dazzle.' I was a choreographer of children's pageants. That was something I never imagined doing. It did great in Australia.

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

My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.