Twyla Tharp

And I think even with no training, I heard that that was better than that.

And they got closer.

And you develop your own morality.

You don't have somebody telling you what is good and what is bad.

It's very high.

It's unattainable.

And you're going to hate yourself a lot of the time.

Well, I'm just saying.

It is a strong word.

Well, the actual box holds the tangible items that are very sensory, that have the feel or the smell or the weight of when you first thought that idea.

Maybe your dance isn't going to look like a rock, but when you picked up that rock, there was a certain kind of physical resistance, and that suggested a kind of movement.

And if you don't keep that rock, you'll forget sometimes where it came from.

I was working...

on a film script once, and I was told, look, write down your initial instinct, your initial idea for what the film is to be.

Put it in a drawer and lock the drawer because there are times when you're going to not know what the fuck you're doing.

Unlock the drawer and remind yourself.

That rock can remind you of that original instinct, that original movement that evolved from it.

And you go, oh, yeah, yeah, that's where I am.

That's what I'm doing.

But we overthink things, and we compound it, and it's not that complicated.