American - Director | October 4, 1941 -
My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.
Robert Wilson
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My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.
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I think that I've always been a kind of structured person.
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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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What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'
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I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.
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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.
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If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.
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I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.
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New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.
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My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?
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I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment.
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