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" Light is architectural. It is sculptural. "

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" When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting. "

" 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.' "

" My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people. "

" 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. "

" We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go. "

" Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated. "

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

" Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly. "

" 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! "

" To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?' "

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

" I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex. "

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

" If we lose our culture, we lose our memory. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people. "

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

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

" One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time. "

" If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message? "

" I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day. "

" New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in 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. "

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

" I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things. "

" 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. "

" When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity. "

" 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. "