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Robert Lepage Quotes

Canadian - Playwright | December 12, 1957 -

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.

Memories Children Childhood People

A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to do it, and the audience's imagination joins in with this, then a miracle will come out of that machine. That is what we and the audience do in the theatre - we create miracles in that space.

Together Imagination Space Theatre

When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show. But theatre isn't a communication device: it's a communion.

Communication New York People Theatre

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

People Done Always Everything Room

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.

Life Good Alone I Am Lonely My Life

We have a tendency in Quebec - and I include myself in this - to describe ourselves using the past. We're always nostalgic.

Myself Past Always Quebec Nostalgic

I always thought I was more of a mommy's boy, because she was charming, talkative, a great storyteller. But as I dug back into my past, I realized I am exactly like my father on so many levels, although I never thought I inherited anything from him.

Father Great Past I Am Thought Back

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.

Life Discipline Excellence People Go

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

Good Time Space Meeting Become Show

I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty.

Beauty Pain I Am Suffering You Find

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.

Education Father Great Speak Pride

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.

Performance Artist Seeing Become Old

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