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" I remember my first review in London said I was the next Peter Brook. I said: 'No way. I'm not Peter Brook. I don't have the maturity, the experience, the intelligence. Don't burden me.' "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I've always been a little scared of technology, which is why I explore it. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I always thought I was more of a mommy's boy, because she was charming, talkative, a great storyteller. But as I dug back into my past, I realized I am exactly like my father on so many levels, although I never thought I inherited anything from him. "

" With the social media phenomenon, where people's opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of 'likes' decides what we should program, I cringe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Vegas is the city of temptation. I think, perhaps, it is an experiment by NASA. If we're going to send people to Mars, how will we create false economies and cultures to satisfy them? Vegas has the answer. People go there when they've nothing left to lose. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations. "

" There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one. "

" 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. "

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