Robert Gottlieb

'Happy Feet' has many felicities.

— Robert Gottlieb

Controversy sells books.

— Robert Gottlieb

As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.

— Robert Gottlieb

Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.

— Robert Gottlieb

Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties.

— Robert Gottlieb

Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.'

— Robert Gottlieb

Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away.

— Robert Gottlieb

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

— Robert Gottlieb

There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination.

— Robert Gottlieb

If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich.

— Robert Gottlieb

Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.

— Robert Gottlieb

I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.

— Robert Gottlieb

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

— Robert Gottlieb

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

— Robert Gottlieb

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.

— Robert Gottlieb

When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.

— Robert Gottlieb

The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.

— Robert Gottlieb

Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of…

— Robert Gottlieb

I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.

— Robert Gottlieb

Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45.

— Robert Gottlieb

One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.

— Robert Gottlieb

You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.

— Robert Gottlieb

Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.

— Robert Gottlieb

Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity?…

— Robert Gottlieb

'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and…

— Robert Gottlieb

A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working…

— Robert Gottlieb

'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs…

— Robert Gottlieb

Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of…

— Robert Gottlieb

You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as…

— Robert Gottlieb

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much…

— Robert Gottlieb

Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini…

— Robert Gottlieb

We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the…

— Robert Gottlieb

When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway.

— Robert Gottlieb

Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.

— Robert Gottlieb

Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.

— Robert Gottlieb

The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.

— Robert Gottlieb

'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

— Robert Gottlieb

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

— Robert Gottlieb

Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.

— Robert Gottlieb

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

— Robert Gottlieb