Robert Lepage Quotes

Robert Lepage

Profession : Playwright

Birth : December 12, 1957

I enjoy juggling four or five different projects in the air and finding connections and disconnections between them.

Robert Lepage

People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood as soon as possible because I knew adults were generally more contained in their cruelty.

Robert Lepage

Every time we make a new invention, we think we're going to save the world, but eventually, we understand that the real virtues of that new invention have mostly to do with commerce. Then we feel a huge emptiness, and we want to fill it with beauty.

Robert Lepage

Cirque du Soleil distinguished itself by being a circus with no animals. Before then, circus was partly about showing how man can tame other species.

Robert Lepage

If Darwin's theories are true, then we have within us the physical memory of when we were fish or apes.

Robert Lepage

Usually, on Broadway or in Hollywood, you come up with a project, and you have to convince the producers that it's safe.

Robert Lepage

When we did 'The Dragons' Trilogy,' China was a big, mysterious piece of rock that we never thought would even move. It was impenetrable, impossible to deal with.

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I've always had a passion for geography. Even at a very young age.

Robert Lepage

In Grade 2, when we had to do a presentation in front of the class, I'd always do things about Ireland or Italy. I could draw maps; I could name all the capitals: I was completely drawn to other lands. I discovered with time that it's a thirst for other people, for otherness, for something fascinating and mysterious.

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Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world.

Robert Lepage

We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and theatre. If you were a man of the world and you mingled among the happy few, you would be at the opera.

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I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different.

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Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent?

Robert Lepage

I want to be surprised by life... I think that's more interesting.

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There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know.

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Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?

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I haven't become a satanist, but I am fascinated by the character of the devil.

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Vegas is the city of temptation. I think, perhaps, it is an experiment by NASA. If we're going to send people to Mars, how will we create false economies and cultures to satisfy them? Vegas has the answer. People go there when they've nothing left to lose.

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I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go beyond it.

Robert Lepage