American - Director | October 4, 1941 -
There hasn't been a great romance in my life.
Robert Wilson
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Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with.
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I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.
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I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.
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Most theater tells you what to think.
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My work should be seen as poetry.
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I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.
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All theater is dance.
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Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.
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I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.
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I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex.
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I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face.
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