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Robert Lepage

Robert Lepage

Canadian Playwright

Born: Dec 12, 1957

Always People Theatre Time World You

Related authors: Arthur Miller Graham Greene James M. Barrie Lynn Nottage Moliere Noel Coward Samuel Beckett W. Somerset Maugham

Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am and what I am trying to understand about myself. It's a therapeutic process. Robert Lepage

If you're going to do a show about somebody who dumped you, it's much richer if you have three characters dealing with different aspects of that theme. There is more space for people to identify with it. Robert Lepage

You People Space Three Somebody Characters About More Identify Dealing Dumped Going Different Theme Much Richer Aspects Show Who

Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute. Robert Lepage

Try Relevant Something Make Always Going Artists

I'm trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in your own personal relationships, your own story, there's an echo to a much larger reality. Robert Lepage

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that. Robert Lepage

I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty. Robert Lepage

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The real writing of a piece comes only when you are performing it. It is why I like theatre. In film and TV, the image is locked forever, but in theatre, there is constant change; each performance is part of the writing process. Robert Lepage

I admire people who can spend every aspect of their life in one discipline and really go all the way. I feel the only way I could achieve some type of excellence is if I connect to other people, other disciplines. Robert Lepage

I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music. Robert Lepage

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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

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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. Robert Lepage

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You're only as good as your last movie, period. It's a business. Robert Lepage

Good You Business Only Period Movie Your Last

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

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

Life Think More Surprised Want Interesting

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

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