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" My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world? "

Robert Wilson

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" At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what's wrong with illusion? "

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" 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. "

" What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?' "

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" 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. "

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

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

" If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.' "

" I do still collect chairs. "

" I want to work with Jay-Z. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There hasn't been a great romance in my life. "

" 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. "

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

" My work is formal, not based on psychology. "

" I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. "

" Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource. "

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

" 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. "