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" In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them. "
Robert Lepage
People
Done
Always
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" We have a tendency in Quebec - and I include myself in this - to describe ourselves using the past. We're always nostalgic. "
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" Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world. "
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" I don't think there is any kind of magic about what I do. All of the connections are there, somewhere in the subconscious or in the collective unconscious. If I let the elements speak to each other, then these coincidences will happen. And they do happen. They happen all the time. "
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" Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're all secretly thrilled to be there. "
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" During the tour of 'Circulations,' we spent a lot of time in Canadian Chinatowns. I was fascinated by the idea that you can cross the road and enter this dream world, this vision of China. "
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" 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. "
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" When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. "
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" I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family. "
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Family
Support
Strong
" I think theatre must be an event, an experience, not compete with cinema. When people are able to download stories on Netflix, you need to give them a good reason to jump into the car and drive two hours. It has to be something you can only see in the theatre, and it has to be worth it. "
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Good
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" Often, particularly towards the end of the process, I think of myself less as a theatre director and more as someone who just directs the traffic. My job is to move the ideas and bits of the show into the places where they work best. Sometimes my job is also to say, 'No.' "
Robert Lepage
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" Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that. "
Robert Lepage
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Like
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" I haven't become a satanist, but I am fascinated by the character of the devil. "
Robert Lepage
Become
Character
I Am
" I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down into a category, like Da Vinci or Jean Cocteau. You could say Cocteau was a great poet but also a film-maker, interested in theatre, sculpture, and could never identify with any of these forms exclusively. "
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Great
Theatre
History
" The important thing is not to know where you are going, to be open to accidents. That's what keeps it fun. "
Robert Lepage
Fun
You
Open
" I've always had a passion for geography. Even at a very young age. "
Robert Lepage
Always
Age
Young
" 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. "
Robert Lepage
People
Vegas
Think
" For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition. "
Robert Lepage
Tradition
Alive
Always
" When we did 'The Dragons' Trilogy,' China was a big, mysterious piece of rock that we never thought would even move. It was impenetrable, impossible to deal with. "
Robert Lepage
Rock
Thought
Impossible
" I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality. "
Robert Lepage
Gender
Did
Never
" 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. "
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Pride
Speak
Great
" Theatre comes alive when someone cross-dresses onstage. "
Robert Lepage
Someone
Onstage
Alive
" Every time we make a new invention, we think we're going to save the world, but eventually, we understand that the real virtues of that new invention have mostly to do with commerce. Then we feel a huge emptiness, and we want to fill it with beauty. "
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Feel
" Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true. "
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Your
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Dreams
" I'm a follower of people not necessarily connected with the theater. "
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Follower
Theater
People
" The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world. "
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World
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" 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. "
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Internet
Happy
" I need to have many things cooking at the same time. "
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Cooking
Many
Things
" 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. "
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People
Reality
" I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre. "
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Theatre
Effeminate
Matter
" My taste comes from when I was 12 years old and saw Genesis or Laurie Anderson or some performance artist who had put paint on himself. I've seen a lot of theater, but that's not what woke up my taste to become a director; nontheatrical things were much more theatrical than the theater I was seeing. "
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