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

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

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

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

" To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?' "

" 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! "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The mind is a muscle. "

" 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. "

" One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time. "

" I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

" I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making. "

" If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before. "