- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly.
- Formal
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work is formal, not based on psychology.
- Hates
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.
- Capitalistic
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- Nov 07, 2020
By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.
- Philosopher
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an artist, not a philosopher.
- Man
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Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to work with Jay-Z.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think mystery... allows us time to dream.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There hasn't been a great romance in my life.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.
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Most theater tells you what to think.
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My work should be seen as poetry.
- Nov 07, 2020
All theater is dance.
- Chekhov
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Light is architectural. It is sculptural.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that I've always been a kind of structured person.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'
- Nov 07, 2020
When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.
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