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Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world.
Robert Lepage
Best
World
Dancer
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.
Robert Lepage
You
Man
Happy
Theatre
World
Cinema
Internet
Before
Few
Those
Would
Would-Be
Tend
Days
Opera
Were
Forget
Among
Thing
I want to be surprised by life... I think that's more interesting.
Robert Lepage
Life
Think
More
Surprised
Want
Interesting
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?
Robert Lepage
Song
Remember
Important
Lyrics
Collaborators
Easily
Trivial
Opening
Names
Island
Theme
Theme Song
Why
Things
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.
Robert Lepage
People
Will
Lose
Experiment
Nothing
Think
City
Mars
Temptation
Vegas
Economies
Perhaps
Answer
How
NASA
Go
False
Cultures
Left
Send
Going
Them
Create
Satisfy
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
You
Disagree
Criticism
Destroyed
Bad
Critics
Point
Beyond
Go
Often
Anymore
I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Love
Drawn
Am
Gothic
American
Stories
Americana
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Best
Me
Playwright
Writer
Becoming
Happened
Things
I've never read 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' although I certainly know what that is. And what I love about that concept is as much as it's a zombie story, it's also 'Pride and Prejudice.'
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Love
Pride
About
Never
Pride And Prejudice
Know
Concept
Also
Read
Although
Story
Much
Prejudice
Certainly
Zombie
Zombies
Duncan Sheik and I are trucking along on 'American Psycho,' which is sort of the anti-Superman, you know? But it's a lot of fun, too, in a much, much darker way, obviously.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
You
Too
Way
Darker
Along
Know
Obviously
Sort
Lot
American
Psycho
Which
Much
Fun
I'm finding that I'm working with more and more Latino artists, and that's exciting.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Latino
Finding
More
More And More
Exciting
Artists
Working
One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Time
Favorite
All-Time
Grant
Graphic
Graphic Novels
Novels
Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Extremes
Musicals
Favorite
About
Horror
Horror Movies
Genres
Because
Movies
Two
Zombies are eternal. They're like dinosaurs.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Dinosaurs
Like
Eternal
Zombies
Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Love
Strange
Addiction
Comics
Blood
I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.
Ronald Harwood
Director
Tough
Bay
He
Put
Like
Very
Going
Famous
Mean
Them
Interference
Kept
Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.
Ronald Harwood
Good
You
Wonderful
Every
Took
Eye
Detail
Examined
Scene
He
Know
Most
Well
Comma
Very
Artist
Roman
Stop
Apart
Sentence
Full
I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.
Ronald Harwood
Whatever
Station
Piano
Fade
He
Straight
Radio
Radio Station
Playing
He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work.
Ronald Harwood
Work
Drop
Think
Guard
Saw
See
He
Concealed
Like
Him
Became
His
Friends
Very
Close
Close Friends
Did
Just
Upset
Anything
Ever
I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
Time
Home
Pride
Care
Wife
Sacrifice
Martha
Martha Stewart
Take
Taking
She
Housework
Gets
Any
Leisure
Leisure Time
Who
Works
Her
Designer
Need
The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
Myself
Good
Day
Daily
Me
Words
Good Day
Reward
Word
Will
Slow
Half
Finally
Bookstore
Extremely
Approximately
About
Haunts
Except
Read
Housing
Meticulous
Going
Quota
Which
Much
Page
Works
Set
My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
Me
Age
Father
Defined
Absence
Superstar
He
Until
His
Up
Childhood
Large
Presence
I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
Work
Wife
Guilt
Longer
Like
She
Go
Off
Wake
Wakes
Sleep
We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
World
Mother
Bitterness
Living
Gloom
Were
Wolves
Scratched
Doom
Where
Door
Storms
Poor
Pessimism
I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
Knowledge
Experience
Enemy
Seen
Own
Military
Books
Television
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Spin
About
My Own
More
Taking
Putting
Know
Pieces
Read
Encounter
Than
Person
Personal
Personal Experience
Movies
Them
Average
Then
Created
Less
There And Then
Brief
Watched
Here
I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
Record
About
Writer
Driving
Suppose
Identity
Forces
Am
Iranian
Being
Want
Straight
Really
Who
Set
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