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" In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there. "
Robert Lepage
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" I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I got in Conservatoire, my teachers would give me a lot of flack because I wasn't rehearsing my lines; I'd be doing stage management. I was interested in sound. I was interested in architecture. I was interested in every aspect of theatre. "
Robert Lepage
Me
School
Architecture
" My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them. "
Robert Lepage
Someone
People
Compassion
" 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. "
Robert Lepage
Great
Theatre
History
" In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them. "
Robert Lepage
People
Done
Always
" It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices. "
Robert Lepage
New
Bad
Bad Choices
" Theatre comes alive when someone cross-dresses onstage. "
Robert Lepage
Someone
Onstage
Alive
" Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible. "
Robert Lepage
Experience
Believe
Place
" Chaos is a good thing. "
Robert Lepage
Good
Thing
A Good Thing
" I've always had a passion for geography. Even at a very young age. "
Robert Lepage
Always
Age
Young
" I've always been a little scared of technology, which is why I explore it. "
Robert Lepage
Technology
Scared
Always
" 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. "
Robert Lepage
Pride
Speak
Great
" We have a tendency in Quebec - and I include myself in this - to describe ourselves using the past. We're always nostalgic. "
Robert Lepage
Past
Always
Describe
" 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. "
Robert Lepage
Trump
You
Interesting
" I find it very strange when people say that they are trying to solve 'Uncle Vanya' or find a solution for 'Henry V.' Plays aren't puzzles. They are about playing. But so much theatre has become about performing and acting rather than playing, which is a great pity because audiences are captivated by watching people play. "
Robert Lepage
Trying
Acting
Great
" Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited. "
Robert Lepage
Dance
Art
Architecture
" Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons. "
Robert Lepage
Opera
Conservative
Houses
" You're only as good as your last movie, period. It's a business. "
Robert Lepage
You
Your
Business
" There is a way to grow old and still have dignity. "
Robert Lepage
Dignity
Way
Grow
" People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile. "
Robert Lepage
Chaos
People
Think
" I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different. "
Robert Lepage
Different
Who
Were
" In Grade 2, when we had to do a presentation in front of the class, I'd always do things about Ireland or Italy. I could draw maps; I could name all the capitals: I was completely drawn to other lands. I discovered with time that it's a thirst for other people, for otherness, for something fascinating and mysterious. "
Robert Lepage
Class
Mysterious
People
" I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre. "
Robert Lepage
Theatre
Effeminate
Matter
" Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am and what I am trying to understand about myself. It's a therapeutic process. "
Robert Lepage
I Am
Work
Process
" If you're going to do a show about somebody who dumped you, it's much richer if you have three characters dealing with different aspects of that theme. There is more space for people to identify with it. "
Robert Lepage
More
Theme
Three
" I haven't become a satanist, but I am fascinated by the character of the devil. "
Robert Lepage
Become
Character
I Am
" 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. "
Robert Lepage
Artist
Paint
Seeing
" When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. "
Robert Lepage
Everything
Work
New
" 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. "
Robert Lepage
Chance
Childhood
Friends
" 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. "
Robert Lepage
Story
People
Reality
" Making art in big cities is often frustrating and difficult. It's why artists are drawn to smaller places. "
Robert Lepage
Places
Difficult
Art