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" 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. "

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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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I like doing very small, intimate things in the morning and then, in the afternoon, to be working on something in a big stadium. "

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" I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want. "

" 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. "

" I want to be surprised by life... I think that's more interesting. "

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" Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating. "

" 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. "

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" I haven't become a satanist, but I am fascinated by the character of the devil. "

" People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood as soon as possible because I knew adults were generally more contained in their cruelty. "

" You're only as good as your last movie, period. It's a business. "

" It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices. "

" When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. "

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

" Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited. "

" I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality. "

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

" The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world. "

" I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre. "

" I've always had a passion for geography. Even at a very young age. "

" 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. "

" Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're all secretly thrilled to be there. "

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

" I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down into a category, like Da Vinci or Jean Cocteau. You could say Cocteau was a great poet but also a film-maker, interested in theatre, sculpture, and could never identify with any of these forms exclusively. "