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

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

" 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. "

" We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. "

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

" My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream. "

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

" One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time. "

" 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. "

" All theater is dance. "

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

" I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work. "

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

" I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it. "

" I want to work with Jay-Z. "

" I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message? "

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

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

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

" 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? "

" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "

" I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens. "