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" Making art in big cities is often frustrating and difficult. It's why artists are drawn to smaller places. "

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" The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world. "

" Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons. "

" Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations. "

" 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. "

" Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world. "

" Theatre's still expensive compared to downloading on Netflix; that has to be addressed. It doesn't mean it has to be over-subsidised by the state, but it's something we're trying to figure out. "

" Theatre comes alive when someone cross-dresses onstage. "

" 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. "

" The extraordinary context of 'Coriolanus' is that it's the first republic - it's the first attempt to create a society not ruled by a monarch. It changes the whole system, and you see how the establishment reacts to that, how they have disdain but play along - and you recognize this is the whole American republican system. "

" Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that. "

" You're only as good as your last movie, period. It's a business. "

" If Darwin's theories are true, then we have within us the physical memory of when we were fish or apes. "

" I like doing very small, intimate things in the morning and then, in the afternoon, to be working on something in a big stadium. "

" Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute. "

" I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different. "

" Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I haven't become a satanist, but I am fascinated by the character of the devil. "

" My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them. "

" I'm not good at entertainment. I don't give myself to all the interviews, game shows, or talk shows. "

" 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. "

" Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating. "

" I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty. "

" When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy. "

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" I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality. "

" 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. "