Another Quote by Robert Gottlieb

Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little…

— James Wolcott

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

— Sherri Saum

All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.

— Robert Gottlieb

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-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

— Henry Mayhew

'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

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

'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often,…

— Robert Gottlieb

You cannot help but watch ballet dancers like Precious Adams without realizing that a classical ballerina can be black. However, talking about this isn't…

— Michaela DePrince

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.

— Caitlin Moran

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

When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.

— Marques Houston