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

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

" Theater originated with technology. People forget that. "

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

" I enjoy juggling four or five different projects in the air and finding connections and disconnections between them. "

" 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. "

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" The extraordinary context of 'Coriolanus' is that it's the first republic - it's the first attempt to create a society not ruled by a monarch. It changes the whole system, and you see how the establishment reacts to that, how they have disdain but play along - and you recognize this is the whole American republican system. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

" If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that. "

" The same critics who destroyed 'Seven Streams' when we opened in Edinburgh - and yes, it was horrible - called it one of the most important shows of the 21st century six years later in London. "

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

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

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