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Robert Lepage Quotes

Canadian - Playwright | December 12, 1957 -

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

Work Experience Believe Place Opera

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

Theatre Will Talk Right Anything

The same critics who destroyed 'Seven Streams' when we opened in Edinburgh - and yes, it was horrible - called it one of the most important shows of the 21st century six years later in London.

Important London Critics Same Years

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.'

Aesthetic Vegas Early Paris Irony

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

Morning Small Doing Big Something

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

Time Cooking Need Same Things Many

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.

Time Theatre Year Actor Way More

Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited.

Music Art Dance Architecture Place

Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons.

Conservative Opera Needs Houses Too

Chaos is a good thing.

Good Chaos A Good Thing Thing

People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile.

People Chaos Negative Think Fact

Often, particularly towards the end of the process, I think of myself less as a theatre director and more as someone who just directs the traffic. My job is to move the ideas and bits of the show into the places where they work best. Sometimes my job is also to say, 'No.'

Work Myself Best Job Ideas Theatre

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