American - Director | October 4, 1941 -
Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.
Robert Wilson
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Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.
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Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
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Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.
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If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way.
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Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite.
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I did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They had never really thought about it.
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I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live.
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If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.
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We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go.
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I want to work with Jay-Z.
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Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!
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