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" I've always had a passion for geography. Even at a very young age. "
Robert Lepage
Always
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" Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible. "
Robert Lepage
Experience
Believe
Place
" There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know. "
Robert Lepage
Things Happen
You
Imagination
" Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons. "
Robert Lepage
Opera
Conservative
Houses
" 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
" 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
Best
Theatre
Work
" I was a privileged observer to be there when Celine Dion opened at Caesars Palace and then the second Gulf War started. It was an odd thing to see the impact both events had on Vegas. The place was riding high after Celine, but overnight, once war was declared, it was deserted. "
Robert Lepage
War
Impact
Riding
" Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations. "
Robert Lepage
Children
Imaginations
Reading
" I remember my first review in London said I was the next Peter Brook. I said: 'No way. I'm not Peter Brook. I don't have the maturity, the experience, the intelligence. Don't burden me.' "
Robert Lepage
Experience
Me
Maturity
" I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality. "
Robert Lepage
Gender
Did
Never
" I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music. "
Robert Lepage
Actor
Someone
Define
" The safety prospects in 'Ka' are the highest in the world. "
Robert Lepage
Highest
World
Safety
" Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is a sensuous experience, and that's its main difference from film or any other dramatic art. "
Robert Lepage
Experience
Literature
You
" We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence. "
Robert Lepage
Culture
Underestimate
Intelligence
" There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one. "
Robert Lepage
Some People
Others
Better
" Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators? "
Robert Lepage
Important
Remember
I Can
" If Darwin's theories are true, then we have within us the physical memory of when we were fish or apes. "
Robert Lepage
True
Physical
Memory
" 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
" The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world. "
Robert Lepage
Mythological
World
Ring
" I admire people who can spend every aspect of their life in one discipline and really go all the way. I feel the only way I could achieve some type of excellence is if I connect to other people, other disciplines. "
Robert Lepage
People
Life
Excellence
" Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute. "
Robert Lepage
Try
Always
Something
" I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty. "
Robert Lepage
I Am
Pain
You
" I need to have many things cooking at the same time. "
Robert Lepage
Cooking
Many
Things
" The real writing of a piece comes only when you are performing it. It is why I like theatre. In film and TV, the image is locked forever, but in theatre, there is constant change; each performance is part of the writing process. "
Robert Lepage
Change
Writing
Theatre
" You're only as good as your last movie, period. It's a business. "
Robert Lepage
You
Your
Business
" I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life. "
Robert Lepage
Life
Theatre
Business
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different. "
Robert Lepage
Different
Who
Were
" A lot of people hated every moment of my 'Ring.' And a lot of people who had never been to an opera bought subscriptions to the next season. "
Robert Lepage
Ring
Season
Who