"My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio."

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Source : "Royal Ballet Live: Wayne Mcgregor on Dance, the White Stripes and the Web". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2012.

Wayne McGregor

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“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
“I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.”
“The kids are the ones that have a clarity about what they want. They don't have any wisdom, but they do have a clear understanding about what they want to have happen.”
“I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.”
“What's left is palimpsestâ€”one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.”
“There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.”
“There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.”

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