“I don’t do autobiographical. I don’t really approve of that. I never thought about it until young people started getting onstage, and it’s supposed to be a dance concert and they kept telling us about their horrible mother or what a hard time they had and all of this true stuff, and I went: Oh, keep it to yourself. No, I don’t do that. I make up dreams.”
Paul Taylor (quoted in Gia Kourlas, “Inside the Wild Mind of Paul Taylor,” New York Times, September 4, 2018)