We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence. Robert Lepage More Quotes by Robert Lepage More Quotes From Robert Lepage In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them. Robert Lepage everything always done people 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 you experience literature art Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true. Robert Lepage true nothing dreams your-dreams A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to do it, and the audience's imagination joins in with this, then a miracle will come out of that machine. That is what we and the audience do in the theatre - we create miracles in that space. Robert Lepage you space imagination together Theater originated with technology. People forget that. Robert Lepage theater technology forget people The great advantage of the circus, and the reason it is so popular, is really the ideal combination of art and sport. It's the ideal art form, in a certain way, if you want to be accessible. Robert Lepage great you way art My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the household, he entertained this idea that we had to speak both languages. Robert Lepage great speak education father Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating. Robert Lepage know theatre talking people For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition. Robert Lepage will me tradition alive Chaos is a good thing. Robert Lepage thing a-good-thing good chaos In real life, I am not a lonely person; I have lots of good friends and am active socially. But there are certain aspects of my life when I have felt very alone, utterly alone, and one of them is when I am performing on my own. Robert Lepage i-am alone good life My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them. Robert Lepage someone think compassion people With the social media phenomenon, where people's opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of 'likes' decides what we should program, I cringe. Robert Lepage opinions social-media media people The thing that's interesting about Trump is that when you read 'Coriolanus,' you'd be tempted to draw parallels. But I don't do that. Robert Lepage read about you interesting The extraordinary context of 'Coriolanus' is that it's the first republic - it's the first attempt to create a society not ruled by a monarch. It changes the whole system, and you see how the establishment reacts to that, how they have disdain but play along - and you recognize this is the whole American republican system. Robert Lepage see you society play There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one. Robert Lepage some-people better real people I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality. Robert Lepage never gender problem identity I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre. Robert Lepage effeminate never theatre matter When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show my feminine side as well as my masculine. Robert Lepage well everything accept myself There is a way to grow old and still have dignity. Robert Lepage old grow dignity way
