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" The safety prospects in 'Ka' are the highest in the world. "
Robert Lepage
Highest
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" I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go beyond it. "
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" During the tour of 'Circulations,' we spent a lot of time in Canadian Chinatowns. I was fascinated by the idea that you can cross the road and enter this dream world, this vision of China. "
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" 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. "
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" I find it very strange when people say that they are trying to solve 'Uncle Vanya' or find a solution for 'Henry V.' Plays aren't puzzles. They are about playing. But so much theatre has become about performing and acting rather than playing, which is a great pity because audiences are captivated by watching people play. "
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" People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood as soon as possible because I knew adults were generally more contained in their cruelty. "
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" I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life. "
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" My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them. "
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" I remember my first review in London said I was the next Peter Brook. I said: 'No way. I'm not Peter Brook. I don't have the maturity, the experience, the intelligence. Don't burden me.' "
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" I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre. "
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" I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty. "
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" Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world. "
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" The real writing of a piece comes only when you are performing it. It is why I like theatre. In film and TV, the image is locked forever, but in theatre, there is constant change; each performance is part of the writing process. "
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" I don't think there is any kind of magic about what I do. All of the connections are there, somewhere in the subconscious or in the collective unconscious. If I let the elements speak to each other, then these coincidences will happen. And they do happen. They happen all the time. "
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" Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true. "
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" There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know. "
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" 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. "
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" I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family. "
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" If Darwin's theories are true, then we have within us the physical memory of when we were fish or apes. "
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" My taste comes from when I was 12 years old and saw Genesis or Laurie Anderson or some performance artist who had put paint on himself. I've seen a lot of theater, but that's not what woke up my taste to become a director; nontheatrical things were much more theatrical than the theater I was seeing. "
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