And love Quote by James Wolcott

What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of…

— Robert Gottlieb

I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie 'Black Swan.'

— Sherri Saum

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

— James Wolcott

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

— Robert Caro

'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength,…

— Benjamin Millepied

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

— Robert Gottlieb

“They fan out across the room, swift and surgical, the steps of this brutal ballet known by heart.”

— Amie Kaufman

Everything is not beautiful at the ballet. It's tough.

— Darcey Bussell

I remember that my mother used to take me to see ballets, especially if there were black people in them.

— Ntozake Shange

I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik…

— Walter Dean Myers

Ballet is a closed world and very rigid; MGM was a fairyland. You'd walk down the lot, seeing all these fabulous movies being made…

— Cyd Charisse

“Marius’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will close the season for us, and it’s a world premiere, so there will be much fanfare, for the…

— Meg Howrey