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" Chaos is a good thing. "
Robert Lepage
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Thing
A Good Thing
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" 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. "
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" In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there. "
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" 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. "
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Childhood
" Theater originated with technology. People forget that. "
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" I want to be surprised by life... I think that's more interesting. "
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" Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited. "
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" Theatre comes alive when someone cross-dresses onstage. "
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" A show is good when there is a meeting of time and space, when time and space become irrelevant. "
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" Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am and what I am trying to understand about myself. It's a therapeutic process. "
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I Am
Work
Process
" Making art in big cities is often frustrating and difficult. It's why artists are drawn to smaller places. "
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Places
Difficult
Art
" 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. "
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Time
Theatre
" 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. "
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Time
Vision
" I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different. "
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Different
Who
Were
" 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. "
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More
Theme
Three
" 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.' "
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Early
Irony
Paris
" I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty. "
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I Am
Pain
You
" When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. "
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Everything
Work
New
" 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. "
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Great
Theatre
History
" I'm not good at entertainment. I don't give myself to all the interviews, game shows, or talk shows. "
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Good
Game
Myself
" 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. "
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People
Class
Day
" Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that. "
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Like
Writing
" 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. "
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" When we did 'The Dragons' Trilogy,' China was a big, mysterious piece of rock that we never thought would even move. It was impenetrable, impossible to deal with. "
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Thought
Impossible
" Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world. "
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Best
Dancer
World
" 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. "
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Disagree
Beyond
" The thing that's interesting about Trump is that when you read 'Coriolanus,' you'd be tempted to draw parallels. But I don't do that. "
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You
Interesting
" The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world. "
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Mythological
World
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" Technology can become a crutch. Sometimes it's there just to hide behind when you're shy of what you're trying to say. "
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Trying
Technology
Shy
" If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that. "
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