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" Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute. "

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" There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know. "

" Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that. "

" People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile. "

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

" I want to be surprised by life... I think that's more interesting. "

" I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life. "

" My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the household, he entertained this idea that we had to speak both languages. "

" 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. "

" My taste comes from when I was 12 years old and saw Genesis or Laurie Anderson or some performance artist who had put paint on himself. I've seen a lot of theater, but that's not what woke up my taste to become a director; nontheatrical things were much more theatrical than the theater I was seeing. "

" 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. "

" Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that. "

" People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood as soon as possible because I knew adults were generally more contained in their cruelty. "

" Often, particularly towards the end of the process, I think of myself less as a theatre director and more as someone who just directs the traffic. My job is to move the ideas and bits of the show into the places where they work best. Sometimes my job is also to say, 'No.' "

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

" A show is good when there is a meeting of time and space, when time and space become irrelevant. "

" The great advantage of the circus, and the reason it is so popular, is really the ideal combination of art and sport. It's the ideal art form, in a certain way, if you want to be accessible. "

" 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. "

" I studied as an actor at the theatre conservatoire in Quebec, but by the time I got to my third year, I was more interested in directing. There's more to it than helping actors get round a stage: it's a wonderful way of telling stories. "

" For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition. "

" Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm not good at entertainment. I don't give myself to all the interviews, game shows, or talk shows. "

" I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down into a category, like Da Vinci or Jean Cocteau. You could say Cocteau was a great poet but also a film-maker, interested in theatre, sculpture, and could never identify with any of these forms exclusively. "

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

" When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show. But theatre isn't a communication device: it's a communion. "

" I think theatre must be an event, an experience, not compete with cinema. When people are able to download stories on Netflix, you need to give them a good reason to jump into the car and drive two hours. It has to be something you can only see in the theatre, and it has to be worth it. "

" We have a tendency in Quebec - and I include myself in this - to describe ourselves using the past. We're always nostalgic. "