Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different. "

Related Quotes:

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

" A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to do it, and the audience's imagination joins in with this, then a miracle will come out of that machine. That is what we and the audience do in the theatre - we create miracles in that space. "

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

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

" A lot of people hated every moment of my 'Ring.' And a lot of people who had never been to an opera bought subscriptions to the next season. "

" The thing that's interesting about Trump is that when you read 'Coriolanus,' you'd be tempted to draw parallels. But I don't do that. "

" We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and theatre. If you were a man of the world and you mingled among the happy few, you would be at the opera. "

" Making art in big cities is often frustrating and difficult. It's why artists are drawn to smaller places. "

" When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy. "

" There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one. "

" Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that. "

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

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

" We have a tendency in Quebec - and I include myself in this - to describe ourselves using the past. We're always nostalgic. "

" People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know. "

" I'm trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in your own personal relationships, your own story, there's an echo to a much larger reality. "

" In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there. "

" Chaos is a good thing. "

" Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible. "

" The same critics who destroyed 'Seven Streams' when we opened in Edinburgh - and yes, it was horrible - called it one of the most important shows of the 21st century six years later in London. "

" Theater originated with technology. People forget that. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons. "

" I studied as an actor at the theatre conservatoire in Quebec, but by the time I got to my third year, I was more interested in directing. There's more to it than helping actors get round a stage: it's a wonderful way of telling stories. "

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