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" It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. "

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" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "

" In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world. "

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" I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements. "

" All theater is dance. "

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

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

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

" 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 learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies. "

" Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite. "

" The mind is a muscle. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way. "

" The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. "

" I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work. "

" There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!' "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "