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" With the social media phenomenon, where people's opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of 'likes' decides what we should program, I cringe. "

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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.' "

Robert Lepage

Experience

Maturity

" 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. "

" Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations. "

" I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre. "

" I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life. "

" I like doing very small, intimate things in the morning and then, in the afternoon, to be working on something in a big stadium. "

Robert Lepage

Doing

Small

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

" If you're going to do a show about somebody who dumped you, it's much richer if you have three characters dealing with different aspects of that theme. There is more space for people to identify with it. "

Robert Lepage

Theme

Three

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

" Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world. "

" Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute. "

" Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true. "

" Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that. "

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

" I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want. "

" 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. "

" Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that. "

Robert Lepage

Much

Writing

" I admire people who can spend every aspect of their life in one discipline and really go all the way. I feel the only way I could achieve some type of excellence is if I connect to other people, other disciplines. "

" I studied as an actor at the theatre conservatoire in Quebec, but by the time I got to my third year, I was more interested in directing. There's more to it than helping actors get round a stage: it's a wonderful way of telling stories. "

" I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music. "

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

Robert Lepage

Think

Interesting

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

" A show is good when there is a meeting of time and space, when time and space become irrelevant. "

" 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. "

" Every time we make a new invention, we think we're going to save the world, but eventually, we understand that the real virtues of that new invention have mostly to do with commerce. Then we feel a huge emptiness, and we want to fill it with beauty. "

" 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. "

" I was a privileged observer to be there when Celine Dion opened at Caesars Palace and then the second Gulf War started. It was an odd thing to see the impact both events had on Vegas. The place was riding high after Celine, but overnight, once war was declared, it was deserted. "

" There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one. "

" 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. "

" Cirque du Soleil distinguished itself by being a circus with no animals. Before then, circus was partly about showing how man can tame other species. "