Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Robert Lepage

Space

Together

Imagination

Related Quotes:

" When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. "

" In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them. "

" I will always demand the right for theatre to talk about anything and anyone. Without exception. None. "

" My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them. "

" It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices. "

" I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I got in Conservatoire, my teachers would give me a lot of flack because I wasn't rehearsing my lines; I'd be doing stage management. I was interested in sound. I was interested in architecture. I was interested in every aspect of theatre. "

Robert Lepage

School

Architecture

" I'm a follower of people not necessarily connected with the theater. "

" I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want. "

" We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence. "

" With the social media phenomenon, where people's opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of 'likes' decides what we should program, I cringe. "

" You're only as good as your last movie, period. It's a business. "

" I need to have many things cooking at the same time. "

" I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different. "

" Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent? "

" I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family. "

" The first time someone stood up in front of the fire and told the story while illustrating it with shadows on the walls of the quarry, that was the birth of theater. "

" Usually, on Broadway or in Hollywood, you come up with a project, and you have to convince the producers that it's safe. "

" 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. "

" The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world. "

" I've always had a passion for geography. Even at a very young age. "

" Making art in big cities is often frustrating and difficult. It's why artists are drawn to smaller places. "

" Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons. "

" Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is a sensuous experience, and that's its main difference from film or any other dramatic art. "

" We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and theatre. If you were a man of the world and you mingled among the happy few, you would be at the opera. "

" There is a way to grow old and still have dignity. "

" I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty. "

" Technology can become a crutch. Sometimes it's there just to hide behind when you're shy of what you're trying to say. "

" Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true. "

" Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating. "

" When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show my feminine side as well as my masculine. "