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All Quotes by author - Robert Lepage
" All of Vegas is false. There's a false Paris, a false Venice, a false Baghdad - in fact, all of the early Vegas aesthetic is Baghdad, which is also the irony. It's 'Aladdin,' the sands, 'One Thousand and One Nights.' "
Early
Irony
Paris
" A lot of people hated every moment of my 'Ring.' And a lot of people who had never been to an opera bought subscriptions to the next season. "
Ring
Season
Who
" A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to do it, and the audience's imagination joins in with this, then a miracle will come out of that machine. That is what we and the audience do in the theatre - we create miracles in that space. "
Space
Together
Imagination
" Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute. "
Try
Always
Something
" As a kid, my dad moved us to the upper town, which was in a higher class of people, and we would see the lower town below. Every day, we could see where we came from and where we were now. "
People
Class
Day
" A show is good when there is a meeting of time and space, when time and space become irrelevant. "
Meeting
Show
Space
" Chaos is a good thing. "
Good
Thing
A Good Thing
" Cirque du Soleil distinguished itself by being a circus with no animals. Before then, circus was partly about showing how man can tame other species. "
Other
Animals
Before
" During the tour of 'Circulations,' we spent a lot of time in Canadian Chinatowns. I was fascinated by the idea that you can cross the road and enter this dream world, this vision of China. "
World
Time
Vision
" Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're all secretly thrilled to be there. "
Down
Vegas
Everybody
" Every time we make a new invention, we think we're going to save the world, but eventually, we understand that the real virtues of that new invention have mostly to do with commerce. Then we feel a huge emptiness, and we want to fill it with beauty. "
Time
Beauty
Feel
" For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition. "
Tradition
Alive
Always
" I admire people who can spend every aspect of their life in one discipline and really go all the way. I feel the only way I could achieve some type of excellence is if I connect to other people, other disciplines. "
People
Life
Excellence
" I always thought I was more of a mommy's boy, because she was charming, talkative, a great storyteller. But as I dug back into my past, I realized I am exactly like my father on so many levels, although I never thought I inherited anything from him. "
Thought
She
Past
" I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty. "
I Am
Pain
You
" I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music. "
Actor
Someone
Define
" I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go beyond it. "
Bad
Disagree
Beyond
" I don't think there is any kind of magic about what I do. All of the connections are there, somewhere in the subconscious or in the collective unconscious. If I let the elements speak to each other, then these coincidences will happen. And they do happen. They happen all the time. "
Connections
Speak
Think
" I enjoy juggling four or five different projects in the air and finding connections and disconnections between them. "
Four
Finding
Air
" If Darwin's theories are true, then we have within us the physical memory of when we were fish or apes. "
True
Physical
Memory
" I find it very strange when people say that they are trying to solve 'Uncle Vanya' or find a solution for 'Henry V.' Plays aren't puzzles. They are about playing. But so much theatre has become about performing and acting rather than playing, which is a great pity because audiences are captivated by watching people play. "
Trying
Acting
Great
" If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that. "
World
You
People
" If you're going to do a show about somebody who dumped you, it's much richer if you have three characters dealing with different aspects of that theme. There is more space for people to identify with it. "
More
Theme
Three
" I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want. "
Want
Singers
Opera
" I haven't become a satanist, but I am fascinated by the character of the devil. "
Become
Character
I Am
" I like doing very small, intimate things in the morning and then, in the afternoon, to be working on something in a big stadium. "
Like
Doing
Small
" I'm a follower of people not necessarily connected with the theater. "
Follower
Theater
People
" I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life. "
Life
Theatre
Business
" I'm not good at entertainment. I don't give myself to all the interviews, game shows, or talk shows. "
Good
Game
Myself
" I'm trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in your own personal relationships, your own story, there's an echo to a much larger reality. "
Story
People
Reality
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