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" 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. "

Robert Wilson

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Audience

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

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" I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face. "

" I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence. "

" 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. "

" The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. "

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" I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person. "

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

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

" When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity. "

" New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world. "

" 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? "

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

" I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community. "

Robert Wilson

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Where

" The mind is a muscle. "

Robert Wilson

Muscle

Mind

" 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. "

" The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.' "

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

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

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" Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.' "

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Know

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" What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?' "

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