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

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" Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work. "

" The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions. "

" What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures. "

" All theater is dance. "

" As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas. "

" The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.' "

" I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. "

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

" I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

" I think mystery... allows us time to dream. "

" I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens. "

" Chairs are like sculpture. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" I do still collect chairs. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people. "

" My work should be seen as poetry. "