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

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

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

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

" I do still collect chairs. "

" If we lose our culture, we lose our memory. "

" 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. "

" Light is architectural. It is sculptural. "

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

" I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. "

" 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 thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. "

" 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 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. "

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

" All theater is dance. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "