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" 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. "

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

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

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

" Light is architectural. It is sculptural. "

" Most theater tells you what to think. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live. "

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

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

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

" Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. "

" I want to work with Jay-Z. "

" I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. "

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

" What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Chairs are like sculpture. "

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

" 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. "

" Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work. "

" The mind is a muscle. "

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

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

" 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. "