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

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In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them.

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.

you experience literature art

Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true.

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.

you space imagination together

Theater originated with technology. People forget that.

theater technology forget people

We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence.

never audience intelligence culture

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.

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.

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.

know theatre talking people

For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.

will me tradition alive

Chaos is a good thing.

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.

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.

someone think compassion 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.

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.

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.

some-people better real people

I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality.

never gender problem identity

I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre.

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.

well everything accept myself

There is a way to grow old and still have dignity.

old grow dignity way