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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Robert Lepage

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Chaos is a good thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The safety prospects in 'Ka' are the highest in the 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. "

" Theatre comes alive when someone cross-dresses onstage. "

" Theater originated with technology. People forget that. "

" Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations. "

" 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. "

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

" In real life, I am not a lonely person; I have lots of good friends and am active socially. But there are certain aspects of my life when I have felt very alone, utterly alone, and one of them is when I am performing on my own. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Theatre's still expensive compared to downloading on Netflix; that has to be addressed. It doesn't mean it has to be over-subsidised by the state, but it's something we're trying to figure out. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The important thing is not to know where you are going, to be open to accidents. That's what keeps it fun. "

" The real writing of a piece comes only when you are performing it. It is why I like theatre. In film and TV, the image is locked forever, but in theatre, there is constant change; each performance is part of the writing process. "