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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment. "

" I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day. "

" In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world. "

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" Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. "

" The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly. "

" 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. "

" I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge. "

" I'm an artist, not a philosopher. "

" 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. "

" My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people. "

" I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism. "

" My work is formal, not based on psychology. "

" I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community. "

" There hasn't been a great romance in my life. "

" I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. "

" 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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" Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work. "

" I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence. "

" 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. "

" The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.' "

" If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message? "