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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. "

" Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly. "

" I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to do a play that would run for days. I don't think time is that important. Nature doesn't hurry the sky, the changing clouds and sunsets. "

" Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite. "

" If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message? "

" My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world? "

" 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. "

" There hasn't been a great romance in my life. "

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

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

" I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge. "

" I did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They had never really thought about it. "

" When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting. "

" I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day. "

" If we lose our culture, we lose our memory. "

" The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space. "

" My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people. "

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

" It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. "

" I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it. "

" I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. "

" Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource. "

" Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do! "

" My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream. "

" When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies. "

" Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated. "

" In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy. "

" 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. "