Robert Lepage Quotes

Robert Lepage

Profession : Playwright

Birth : December 12, 1957

In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there.

Robert Lepage

Vegas is a testing ground for the human soul. What are our values, especially in a time of crisis? Work with Cirque du Soleil, and you learn that quickly. The former socialist street performers who now throw parties by the pool with Brazilian models, oh yes!

Robert Lepage

Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're all secretly thrilled to be there.

Robert Lepage

I'm not good at entertainment. I don't give myself to all the interviews, game shows, or talk shows.

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I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life.

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I'm a follower of people not necessarily connected with the theater.

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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.

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Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is a sensuous experience, and that's its main difference from film or any other dramatic art.

Robert Lepage

The first time someone stood up in front of the fire and told the story while illustrating it with shadows on the walls of the quarry, that was the birth of theater.

Robert Lepage

'The Blue Dragon' uses very filmic language and involves a lot of technology. It is more cinematic than theatrical and was inspired by comic strips and graphic novels.

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When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy.

Robert Lepage

When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed.

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

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

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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.

Robert Lepage

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.'

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

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

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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.

Robert Lepage

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

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