- When it came time to choose a high school, my mother came up to see my guidance teacher, who was also my French teacher. I wanted to go to farming school. I had a plot of land in a small park and grew carrots, radishes, corn, lettuce and flowers. The Eiffel Tower on display that I had made out of toothpicks influenced the decision. 'I think Remy should be an artist,' my mother said. 'It's more practical.'
- I love sequence, how one thing follows another. When you're reading to a child, he can't wait to get to the next page. 'Turn the page, turn the page!' That's because each new page is a door to another, different world.
- I really don't know where it all comes from. I'm in another world and I'm very lucky.
- [on his children's book, "Fortunately"] A rambunctious dance flying, falling in space, diving in water, swimming, running, digging."
- [on dance] It's one of the hardest things to do--to be free enough to dance, to move around. Look at all those dancers--Isadora throwing away her corset, shoes, and bra; Merce giving up stories and Graham going into whatever she calls it, that darkness of the inner soul; Nureyev leaping over the wall. Dancing is still about freedom.
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