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" If we lose our culture, we lose our memory. "
Robert Wilson
Memory
Our
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" 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! "
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" I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism. "
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" 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. "
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" We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go. "
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" Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. "
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" I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person. "
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" 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?' "
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" 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?' "
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" In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world. "
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" I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence. "
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" I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements. "
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Child
Me
" I think that I've always been a kind of structured person. "
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" At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what's wrong with illusion? "
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End
Theatre
" I want to work with Jay-Z. "
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Work
Want
" 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. "
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Life
History
" When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting. "
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Family
Life
" When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity. "
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Get
Intellectual
" Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work. "
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" Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly. "
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Sometimes
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" As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas. "
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Man
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" There hasn't been a great romance in my life. "
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" I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live. "
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" I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work. "
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