Choreography Quote by Norman Jewison

Keeping the same background and repeating the same shots is not choreography. It means that a song should take the story forward. If you…

— Manoj Kumar

I try and create choreography that's in conversation with the music that the audience is hearing.

— Justin Peck

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

— John Landis

You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area…

— Cholly Atkins

I think when you're doing a musical, you have to be attuned to the director's vision. You're working with a variety of people, singers…

— Arlene Phillips

There was a technique to making a musical. It took a long time for the studios to learn it, and it was very complicated.

— Cyd Charisse

I convinced Tim to add one song, and then we added five. We changed a lot of things while we were shooting, which you…

— John August

We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

— Mike Lowry

You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that,…

— Trey Parker

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Another way of working is setting deliberate constraints that aren't musical ones - like saying, "Well, this piece is going to be three minutes…

— Brian Eno

We wanted a musical number that would capture the exhilaration of being out on a boat as they were and sailing with the stars…

— John Musker