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The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays. Richard Greenberg

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Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth; I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one's there; that's kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out. Richard Greenberg

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You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you? Richard Greenberg

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It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it becomes this paralyzing monolith. Richard Greenberg

I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I? Richard Greenberg

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I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly. Richard Greenberg

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I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us. Richard Greenberg

For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious. Richard Greenberg

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The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play. Robert Anderson

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The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely. Robert Bolt

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He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts. Robert E. Sherwood

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Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair. Robert Greene

Despair Hates Sorrow Woe Waste Brings

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

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

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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

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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

Chaos is a good thing. Robert Lepage

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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

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

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

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The safety prospects in 'Ka' are the highest in the world. Robert Lepage

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I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want. Robert Lepage

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

You Yourself Darkest Possible Vegas Because Confront Your Las Vegas Desires

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