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

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" 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?' "

" I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They had never really thought about it. "

" I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements. "

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

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

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

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

" I think mystery... allows us time to dream. "

" 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? "

" Chairs are like sculpture. "

" 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. "

" The mind is a muscle. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school. "

" I think that I've always been a kind of structured person. "

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

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

Change The World

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

" 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? "

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

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