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

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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. "

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

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

" Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text. "

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

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

" 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. "

" By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell. "

" I do still collect chairs. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 work should be seen as poetry. "

" I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. "

" Light is architectural. It is sculptural. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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 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! "

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

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

" I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. "