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" I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things. "

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" We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go. "

" I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex. "

" Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work. "

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" By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell. "

" I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work. "

" If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way. "

" Most theater tells you what to think. "

" I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism. "

" My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school. "

" The mind is a muscle. "

" I think that I've always been a kind of structured person. "

" My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions. "

" Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. "

" I'm an artist, not a philosopher. "

" I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. "

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" Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with. "