I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.
