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" Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent? "

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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. "

" All of Vegas is false. There's a false Paris, a false Venice, a false Baghdad - in fact, all of the early Vegas aesthetic is Baghdad, which is also the irony. It's 'Aladdin,' the sands, 'One Thousand and One Nights.' "

" Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating. "

" 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. "

" In Grade 2, when we had to do a presentation in front of the class, I'd always do things about Ireland or Italy. I could draw maps; I could name all the capitals: I was completely drawn to other lands. I discovered with time that it's a thirst for other people, for otherness, for something fascinating and mysterious. "

" In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there. "

" I need to have many things cooking at the same time. "

" 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. "

" Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible. "

" Vegas is a testing ground for the human soul. What are our values, especially in a time of crisis? Work with Cirque du Soleil, and you learn that quickly. The former socialist street performers who now throw parties by the pool with Brazilian models, oh yes! "

" For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition. "

" When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. "

" It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices. "

" I want to be surprised by life... I think that's more interesting. "

" 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. "

" In real life, I am not a lonely person; I have lots of good friends and am active socially. But there are certain aspects of my life when I have felt very alone, utterly alone, and one of them is when I am performing on my own. "

" I will always demand the right for theatre to talk about anything and anyone. Without exception. None. "

" Making art in big cities is often frustrating and difficult. It's why artists are drawn to smaller places. "

" In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them. "

" Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators? "

" We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence. "

" Usually, on Broadway or in Hollywood, you come up with a project, and you have to convince the producers that it's safe. "

" We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and theatre. If you were a man of the world and you mingled among the happy few, you would be at the opera. "

" If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that. "

" Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're all secretly thrilled to be there. "

" When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy. "

" Theater originated with technology. People forget that. "

" 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.' "

" The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world. "